(November 30, 2015 at 11:42 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(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.
Syrians protested peacefully against Assad's regime, and the response was violence from the government. That's how it started specifically in Syria. Now, sure, the protests may have been enabled by other events that were going on outside of Syria, but the protests were initially peaceful until the army started firing at them.
