[dfwgator]

Assad is the Devil You Know...Better him, than them.

[Leaning Right]

Assad is the Devil You Know...Better him, than them.

Yep. As bad as Assad is, I don't think he dreams of eventually attacking an American city. But that's something the rebels probably discuss on a regular basis.

[spetznaz]

Exactly. Compared to the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), an Al Qaeda splinter group so vicious and radicalized that the parent Al Qaeda was fighting against them, Assad comes across as the better evil. Assad is a monster, but ISIS and a good deal of the other 'rebels' in Syria are far far worse. Not all the rebels are bad, but all the ones that achieved success seem to be.

This is yet another example that the REAL world is never black and white. Sound bites and political opinions fit well into a binary matrix of black and white, where the good guys wear white hats and the bad guys black. However, just because folk like Assad and Qaddafi and their ilk are veritable monsters - who need to be taken out of power - does not mean that there is no need to look at the alternative. Many times the alternative can be far worse. A rat in the house is a bad thing, but substituting it with a rattlesnake will never be prudent.