[1rudeboy]

I would bomb that scumbag Assad into the dirt, and then bomb the new crew if they looked at me sideways. There ya’ have it: now the paleos (and the Russians) will call me a neocon.

[ichabod1]

Not me. I like Assad. He’s an eye doctor. He helps people.

[Iscool]

I would bomb that scumbag Assad into the dirt, and then bomb the new crew if they looked at me sideways. There ya’ have it: now the paleos (and the Russians) will call me a neocon.

Interesting that you take the side of John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Obama and Hillary...Who next do you want to eliminate, Netanyahu, Trump and then Cruz???

[Mister Da]

I don’t believe there is anything in Syria worth risking WWIII. The opportunity for the US & allies to do something about Assad ended when the Russians moved in.

If we tried to bomb Assad we would likely kill some Russians. Too, the Russian AA defenses would make such a bombing a difficult, dangerous proposition. By the time such bombing might be effective we would be in a war with Russia.

It has become clear to me that in the muslim world a dictator is preferable to the will of the (lunatic) people. Iran went from stability under the Shah to extremist chaos under the mullahs. Libya is a basket case without Kadafi. Egypt only resumed some sense of normalcy after the elected radical government was overthrown. Turkey is on the edge of going full islamist. The only relatively stable, non-aggressive muslim countries in the ME are ruled by kings.

Mixing islam with democracy yields chaos. islam & democracy are mutually exclusive. Unseating Assad will only create another radical, dangerous muslim state. And the very LAST people I would want to try to solve the Syria/ME problems are the incredibly incompetent, ideologically insane Obama & Kerry.