RE: Why all people think that Assad and ISIS are the only choices?
November 30, 2015 at 11:42 pm
(November 30, 2015 at 8:06 pm)Irrational Wrote: Not all people, OP. I personally think Assad regime is just as bad as ISIS. Hell, the civil war started in Syria because of Assad murdering his own people.
Had the FSA received adequate support way before ISIS and the others emerged, we'd have a different Syria now.
Uh, no. Assad murdered his own people during the civil war. That is drastically different from the civil war started because Assad murdered his own people. Prior to the civil war baby Assad had actually be one of the more enlightened, less blood thirsty, and less despotic of despots in the middleeast, vastly more enlightened, less bloody handed, in fact a down right saint of modernity and participatory governance, compare to our friends the Saudis.
The US was so entheusiatic about getting rid of Assad mainly because Assad was willing to hoste a Russian naval base in Syria, and because Syria still had a fairly formidable and well equipped army and air force, almost a noticeable fraction of the Israeli army and air force, which the US and Israel felt uneasy about.
