No, I think al Qaeda is immoral, but the main enemy in Syria and Iraq today is ISIS or ISIL. They’re equally evil. However, Putin’s tendency to kill without regard for the lives of innocent civilians makes him a war criminal. He is likely in the long run a more serious threat to our way of life than these terrorists, who now probably number less than 20,000 in both countries. When choosing between two evils, I choose neither.
Our leader has not been targeting alqaeda, ISIS, ISIL, radical islam throughout this exercise. They have been targeting Assad, and Assad is a longtime supporter of Russia’s naval base at Tartus which has been there since 1971.
In the meantime, Saudi Arabia wants Assad removed for reason of Saudi’s own economic interests.
It has seemed that the US is a client state of Saudi Arabia.