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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jul 16

    Just about any peace in Syria would be better than the current war. Reducing the human suffering may require cooperation with the odious Assad.http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/the-price-peace-syria-cooperation-assad-25871 …

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      2. Karl (Malicious) Morant‏ @kamorant Jul 16
        Replying to @sapinker

        And Iraq was better off under Hussein, Libya under Ghadaffi. The only constant between the three is Westen meddling.

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      3. Bajro Nuhanović‏ @Nuhanovic_ Jul 16
        Replying to @kamorant @sapinker

        Shame on you for saying that.

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      4. Karl (Malicious) Morant‏ @kamorant Jul 16
        Replying to @Nuhanovic_ @sapinker

        Millions have died in the Middle East and Northern Africa due to Western meddling.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      5. Bajro Nuhanović‏ @Nuhanovic_ Jul 16
        Replying to @kamorant @sapinker

        Factually untrue. No one chooses to live under fascism and no body deserves it.

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      6. Karl (Malicious) Morant‏ @kamorant Jul 17
        Replying to @Nuhanovic_ @sapinker

        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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      2. ᵀᴴᴱ ᴾᴿᴬᴳᴹᴬᵀᴼᴹᴱᵀᴱᴿ‏ @pragmatometer Jul 16
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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      3. Rotem Eren 🤦🏻‏ @RotemEren Jul 16
        Replying to @pragmatometer @sapinker

        Any war, really. This was the argument behind Chamberlain's "Peace in our time."

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      1. Emil Shure‏ @Emil_Chainsaw Jul 16
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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      1. DKlondt‏ @dklndt Jul 16
        Replying to @sapinker

        "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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      2. This Week in Russian History‏ @WeekRussian Jul 16
        Replying to @sapinker

        Yes, because openly supporting dictatorships in the Middle East has done wonders for US FP over the past 6 decades 🤣😂🤣

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      3. Aidan K.‏ @WellsiteGeo Jul 16
        Replying to @WeekRussian @sapinker

        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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      4. This Week in Russian History‏ @WeekRussian Jul 17
        Replying to @WellsiteGeo @sapinker

        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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      2. This Week in Russian History‏ @WeekRussian Jul 16
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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      3. André-Christian Béhar‏ @BeharAndre Jul 17
        Replying to @WeekRussian @sapinker

        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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      4. This Week in Russian History‏ @WeekRussian Jul 17
        Replying to @BeharAndre @sapinker

        Cooperating, how?

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      1. David Simon‏ @DavidSimonSPG Jul 16
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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