And Iraq was better off under Hussein, Libya under Ghadaffi. The only constant between the three is Westen meddling.
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Shame on you for saying that.
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Millions have died in the Middle East and Northern Africa due to Western meddling.
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Factually untrue. No one chooses to live under fascism and no body deserves it.
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Fascism is a lot better than civil war, warlords, ISIS, Al Queda, Jihadists, rape, poverty and smashed homes. Please go to Sirte, Tripoli, Mosul or Alepo and tell me that they are better of now.
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I'm certainly not saying that's wrong, but it's very difficult to weigh out the immediate vs. long-term effects of that. Not super analogous, but similar arguments could have been made of our own civil war, etc.
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Any war, really. This was the argument behind Chamberlain's "Peace in our time."
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For some that was obvious since the get go in 2010, well before Isis. Given the horrors that ISIS and other groups provided why do we still discuss if cooperation with Assad might be required? Shouldn't we just stop pretending that we know what is best for Syrians.
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"cooperation with the odious Assad" Have you, per chance, bothered to enunciate how Assad is "odious"? Everything being relative, start with comparing him to other leaders we cooperate with.
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Yes, because openly supporting dictatorships in the Middle East has done wonders for US FP over the past 6 decades



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So, US foreign policy is more important to you than the actual people on the ground. I'm going to hazard a guess - you're an American?
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What the hell type of assumption is that? I’m stating something which can be verified. So, you love thousands of Syrians being tortured and placed in concentration camps?
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After Assads daddy seized power via a coup, there has been almost non stop tension and violence between Shia and Sunnis in that country. Perhaps Assad is the problem?


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Yes, Assad IS the problem. Almost everyone agrees on that. But we still need to cooperate with him if we want Syrian people to stop dying.
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Cooperating, how?
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In 1918 the allies agreed to an armistice with Germany before Germany was totally defeated rather than having Germany surrender. It saved lives-in 1918.
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