[M. Espinola]

You are fully correct in your overview. It's always been a despicable place with one beast or the other running the show. The problem is the current beast is arming Islamic madmen and having his vocal critics bumped off one after the other while the West sits there - silent.

[GSlob]

Every regime is an adequate reflection of the socially active part of its population. In simplified form the preceding statement is known as "every people deserves its government". A leader of a rats pack cannot be a lion - he can only be a rat. A beast runs a show, for it is a fundamentally beastly show, and no other show is, was, or will be, possible there, barring transcivilizing.

[A. Pole]

It's always been a despicable place with one beast or the other running the show.

Hatred is a very toxic passion.