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The Syrian War Condensed: A more Rigorous Way to Look at the Conflict (visual)
N.N. Taleb Blog ^ | 12/15/2016 | Nicholas Taleb

Posted on 04/14/2017 4:52:25 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol

Juxtaposition. The way to analyze the situation is to look at the factions comparatively. You do not compare Assad’s regime to the Danish or Norwegian governments, but to the alternative. The question becomes if there is anything in the left column that is worse than the right column?

(Excerpt) Read more at medium.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: jihadis; syria
Taleb, author of the NYT bestsellers The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable and Fooled by Randomness, grew up in the Middle East to a prominent Christian family. He is Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering and was professor at Oxford University and NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
1 posted on 04/14/2017 4:52:25 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
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To: AC Beach Patrol

The Table shows that backing the “rebels”,
i.e. al Qaeda, is stupid [p < .001].


2 posted on 04/14/2017 4:55:34 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Diogenesis

Lol


3 posted on 04/14/2017 5:01:05 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
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To: AC Beach Patrol

Hm. BFL...


4 posted on 04/14/2017 5:08:59 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: AC Beach Patrol

Thanks for posting.. for some reason I thought Assad was an alawite. Great chart, but I just don’t see any good guys in the ME, except Israel.


5 posted on 04/14/2017 5:46:50 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Gas attacks. Substitute Sadam for Assad and Iraq for Syria? How many American lives do you commit)
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To: sauropod

bkmk


6 posted on 04/14/2017 5:50:42 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: momincombatboots
Assad is an Alawite.
That is one of the reasons he supports a degree of religious tolerance.
7 posted on 04/14/2017 6:32:47 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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