WWSD?
I'm not going to come out in favor of Stalin, but we are learning that being one of Stalins' victims does not automatically make you a Jeffersonian Democrat.
Just as being one of Saddam's victims didn't make Muqtadr Sadr into a political progressive. And I was watching an interview today with some of the bad guys in Fallujah, who had been brutalized by Saddam, but were now fighting us because they didn't have electricity quickly enough.
Some souls yearn to be free, and some souls demand to be locked up.
I'm not a fan of Stalin either but in this game the most brutal wins. The reason we beat the Japanese in WW2 is because we had the means to kill every Japanese in Japan with minimal losses to ourselves and demonstrated to them our willingness to do just that. That's what it will take to win the war on terror. Nothing less.