It is wrong to thing of people in the Middle East as either good or bad — the correct categories are bad, worse, and yet worse. ISIS was the worst of the worst. Assad is following in the footsteps of his father, trying to hold the country together as best he can. In fact the current death and destruction in Syria had a prequel in 1982 when the Muslim Brotherhood tried to take over the city of Hama. Assad’s father ordered the destruction of the city by artillery fire. The death toll from that was estimated to be in the range of 10,000 to 40,000. The Saudis have been doing similar to some Shia-dominated towns in Saudi Arabia in the last year, but nobody is concerned about that.
It is morally wrong to attempt to depose Assad because what would replace him would be worse — it would be head-choppers. And it would really be a case of women and minorities being the worst affected; the Christians would get wiped out, as they were in Iraq as a consequence of the 2003 invasion. So why has the US been spilling blood and squandering treasure in support of the baddies in this conflict? If they were successful in deposing Assad, Syria would immediately turn into another haven for terrorists attacking the West, more so than it has ever been.
It wasn’t limited to just David Cameron and Nicholas Sarkozy. Obama and Clinton have their fingerprints all over that as well.
Trump is not doing Russia’a bidding in Syria nor Europe’s. He is doing it his own way. The right way. The American way.
The pro-Israel and anti-Iran way. And therefore we are ultimately at odds with Russia.
Get over it.
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Nice folks actually