Who is better than Assad in Syria? Who does the US want to see in power?
Let putin decide, bob. you’ll be okay with that.
You win the prize. Who will succeed Assad?
The goal of a moderate middle east, by now, should at this point be rejected as achievable. Impoverishment of muslim states by taking away their pricing power in the energy market should commence. With T-rex in charge, that may well happen.
Relax.
We broke some of Assad’s expensive toys; we aren’t invading his country to march on Damascus and take him down.
The strike was a figurative rap on the knuckles; a strong warning to lay off the chem weapons, and leave civilians out of the conflict. It was IN NO WAY a signal that the U.S. intends to depose Assad.
Hell, we didn’t even disable the runway at the base we hit. If we’d had in mind to truly cripple Assad the runways over there would look like the craters of the Moon right now.
Lotta jaw-jackin’ and political doomcasting going on right now & I’d encourage a less newscast-y reactive, more thoughtful and responsive posture. God knows we don’t need more people channeling Chicken Little.
“Who is better than Assad in Syria? Who does the US want to see in power?”
The Syrian people.
No such thing as a good mussie scum...
Assad who has once again used chemical weapons against his own people?
That's a good question but it doesn't justify the leaving of Assad in his position.............
Well gee do you want me to get qualified for ballot position??
Who is going to replace Assad?
This guy might get my vote for that job:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Hamzah_bin_Hussein
One of the sons of King Abdullah of Jordan. (by his third wife)
Same Assad can rule Syria, but without the use of Saran gas which incinerates lungs of victims and babies. If we are against abortions, to be consistent, we should be against brutal murders of innocent babies and civilians by horrible chemical weapons. Otherwise we would be justified being called hypocrites and phonies.
A replacement for Assad imposed on Syria will be either Sunni or, more likely, Shia. The genocide of the minorities that were Assad's power base and that he protected will commence. That includes Christians, Alawites (Assad is one), Kurds, Azeris, Druses, and others. The Alawites are nominally Shia but are actually barely Moslem. Assad is the bloody tyrant that he is depicted but all of them are that, and any that we can replace him with are worse alternatives. In an Arab or Arabized Moslem country that is the only kind of boss that can survive.