I prefer Assad.
And I prefer someone other than the oil guy from Texas who made all the Bushies and neocons so happy in as Sec. of State.
Stephen Cohen just stated on CNN that there is no evidence implicating Assad. I don’t fear Assad. I do fear ISIS. This has been stated here several times - anything that weakens Assad, makes ISIS stronger.
Really? This is the guy who helped Hisbullah defeat the people of Lebanon. He is a butcher just like his father. I don’t happen to believe he used chemical weapons THIS time, but he used them before and he is an ally of Iran and an enemy of Israel.
That said, there is nobody to take over that country who would not be a disaster for the world. There are no good guys in Syria
See post 50.
During the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Syria’s Assad regime was helping insurgents to cross the border and kill Americans.
https://newrepublic.com/article/86465/syria-assad-bush-obama-pentagon
True Assad was a bit more controllable and any replacement willbe just as bad or worse. It’s called islam