Assad is a mass murderer like his father.
Arab dictators have to kill to remain power.
Or they wind up dead like Qaddafi. The Assad regime is a ruthless totalitarian regime.
Those who oppose it disappear. They are not good guys.
>Assad is a mass murderer like his father.
Arab rulers unwilling to kill their crazy Muslim jihadists don’t live long.
>Arab dictators have to kill to remain power.
See how to keep Muslims under control chapter 1.
>Or they wind up dead like Qaddafi. The Assad regime is a ruthless totalitarian regime.
Qaddafi died due to NATO airsupport.
>Those who oppose it disappear. They are not good guys.
Rulers like Assad who protect Christians are good guys in my book. We tried giving the Iraqi’s democracy and they just murdered each in huge numbers. Saddam was preferable.
“They are not good guys.”
No they are not but there ARE worse guys.
Would the Middle East be better off with Hussein, Mubrarak, and Qaddafi? I think there would be a lot more people alive, and Europe would not be on fire.
Out there, there are no good guys. There ARE, however, varying degrees of bad.
However bad Assad might be, ISIS has demonstrated that they are worse
. It is thus in America’s interest that he does not fall.
you want a Libya-style chaos or Iraq-style chaos?
He is the lesser evil. Under him, women were free to study, work etc.; Christians, Alawites, Mandaens, Yazidis, Druze were free to worship, pray, live normal lives
The alternative is far, far worse
Do you really think Libya post-Gaddafi is better than it was under Gaddafi? For Libya or the world?
Obama is against Assad.
McCain as well.
I consider it good news.
Sometimes one should be judged by their enemies. Assad is a bloody dictator, but his enemies are genocidal maniacs. Qaddafi’s death was one of the worst things to happen to the region as illustrated by Steven’s death. The Obama/Clinton policies need to be abandoned with prejudice. Wahhabism is the root of terror in the Middle East and we have no reason to promote the expansionist dreams of the Saudis.
I am sick of our “leaders” getting in bed with petty tyrants—including every “royal” family. Pretending that these fake royals are our allies is the height of stupidity. They are all evil regimes that despise everything our country was founded upon. There isn’t anything in the entire Middle East worth one drop of American blood.
I thought Qaddafi was killed with help from the US?
That’s what the MSM believe and sell. I am not yet convinced.
So?
I am curious how many Syrians you think Bashir Assad killed in the first 11 years of his presidency ( from 2000 - 2011) ? It was after 2011 when obama Clinton and the saudis began to employ “ arab Spring” to overthrow all the nonsecular heads of state by funding and supporting violent radical islamists many of whom were foreign to the countries they infiltrated.
Qadaffi didn’t fight back effectively, the Egyptians fought back after the MB figurehead Morsi showed his stripes, Assad ( eventually with Russian and iranian support) fought back when his police governors supportive communities and military were being assassinated. If there is a kinder gentler way to resist tens of thousands of ISIS and Al Qaeda anarchists embedding themselves among intimidated brutalized civilians, maybe western historians can someday write a kinder gentler war plan.
Assad has been elected 3 times now.
Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett has traveled in Syria and the region and describes the sentiment of the silent majority of Syrians who support their president and consider their national army as liberators. If Assad was as brutal as you say then why did he allow “ fighters” to evacuate eastern Aleppo instead of flattening the place or besieging and starving them out?
Eva Bartlett interview at the UN
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AbIqdRvOnww