For quite a long time now, we’ve been told by Putin and Assad supporters on FreeRepublic that one of the reasons they supported Putin is that he supports Assad. As the story went, Assad was a real anti-Al Qaeda fighter. He was a defender of our Lord Jesus Christ, Christians in Syria, and a swell dude. Yet the reality is that Assad’s been in an alliance against with ISSIS againt the non-al Qaeda fighters. Assad’s been aligned with ISIS (the al Qaeda on steroids bunch) for a long time now. Obviously, Vladimir Putin, President for Life, retired KGB Colonel of 16 years, son of a secret police father who faithfully served Stalin, and all round neat guy without a shirt, as the story went was the great defender of humanity, the Russian Orthodox Christian Faith, and the dumbed down Russian chauvinism of the Putinistas. But he was also unconcerned that Assad was, to put it mildly, pursuing a war against those whose crime it is to want Assad and al Qaeda defeated. That’s why some of us oppose Assad, Putin, and Obama.
Assad is a secular socialist, as was Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi) these dictators are/were not nice people but they kept the Muslim crazies at bay and allowed the non-Muslims (AKA Christians) to live a relatively peaceful life. Since the US intervention in Iraq, Libya and Syria the Christian populations of these places have been decimated. I’m not a great fan of Assad but it’s idiocy to think that getting rid of Assad will make things better in Syria or that the US is not the real cause of this whole problem. Our actions have destabilized that whole region.