Shouldn't we be on the side of whoever's against Al Qaida/ISIS?
why exactly are we against Assad?
I keep finding myself saying, “if the resistance in Syria is Muslim, I’m not interested in getting involved. I’ll take a secular despot over muslims any day. As we learned with the Nazis, secularists don’t blow themselves up.
Follow up question (especially directed at those who said we had no national security interest in taking out Saddam), what threat is Assad to our national security interests?
We are against Assad for the same reason we were against Libyas’ Gaddafi and Egypts’ Mubarak. All three kept the Muslin Brotherhood (terrorists) from taking power. Under Obama we switched sides on the war on terror. We even have the CIA and US Army arming and training terrorists in Syria (and Iraq).
You mean like Iran?
You have to go back to Hussein's Arab Spring and his support of the rebels in Egypt and Libya.
Hussein and useful idiot Hillary Clinton were transerring weapons from Libya when the terrorist attack in Benghazi occurred.
In Syria, Hussein is again supporting the rebels. WHO ARE THE REBELS? In Egypt it was primarily the Muslim Brotherhood who are Muslim terrorists.
In Libya, the rebels were Al Qaeda.
In Syria, yep, Muslim terrorists again.
By pulling US troops out of Iraq, Hussein intended to give that country to ISIS (you may remember Trump said Hillary and Hussein started ISIS, Trump was NOT kidding).
By overthrowing governments, Hussein and his Muslim handlers were setting up Islam to pick up the pieces. Like Nixon's domino theory for the spread of communism, Hussein is working to set up Islam to takeover the west.
Mohamed will not return until the world is all Muslim. That means convert or die.
Does that make sense or do you still wonder why Hussein talks about his Holy Koran and refuses to say Muslim terrorists?
Our first Muslim President treats Americans like they are idiots. So far, he has no worry about anyone accusing him of being a traitor so his premise appears to be correct.
why exactly are we against Assad?
“why exactly are we against Assad?”
The plan of Obunghole and Rotten Cankles was to remove every halfway sane government in the Middle East and replace it with al Qaeda.
why exactly are we against Assad?
We were not - the administration was in their rush to support the Arab Spring. Interestingly - little known fact for people to digest.... Assad was against the pipeline (as was Russia and Iran) from the Gulf States through Syria into Turkey and into Europe. The Saudi’s and other Gulf States want this pipeline so they can easily sell more to Europe. It would be fair to say the pipeline could be worth trillions. Assad was stopping it because he refused to allow it to cross Syria. Russia would do almost anything to stop it because it would end their semi-exclusive market into Europe.
Supporting the overthrow of Assad made no sense to me until you look at the donations to the Clinton foundation from the Gulf States. They donated huge sums of money at the same time our State Department seemingly reversed course to support the ouster of Assad. The rest is history.
Follow the money?
Don't beleive the "it's becasue he's a despot" line. That has never stopped us from supporting tin pot dictators, or at least turning a blind eye towards them. The debacle in Syria most likely has more to do with a proposed pipeline than with killer heads of state. Said pipeline, proposed and funded by the Gulf states, led by the House of Saud would run from the ME to the Med that would enable the EU to rely less on Russia for energy resources. Our government wants that, in order to poke a stick in Putin's eye. The Russians don't want that for obvious reasons. just follow the money.
The same can be said about Quaddafi, since he was brought up on another response to your question. He was leading the push for an alternative to the French franc as the currency of trade in the old Francophile Africa countries. France and the EU couldn't have that, and our government, in it's effort to push their Arab Spring movement jumped in on their side. It all ended up with a cackled "We came, we saw, and we killed him" and a failed state in Lybia.