[DesertRhino]

The Sunnis want a sunni government in Syria. Our Sunni government in DC and the CIA also want this.
A Sunni government would be like everywhere else they rule, a theocratic hellhole.

Under Assad and the Alawites you can be a Christian, any type of moslem, and even a Jew etc. There are still one or two Synagogues in Syria of Jews who did not move to Israel back in the 40s.
You can be a woman, with a job and a car. She can drive to Latakia beach, bance to music, drink Syrian made wines, and marry as she pleases.

By any measure Assad was the most liberal leader in the Middle east. So when our Saudi and Gulf States “Allies” ordered us to do so, we launched the rebel movement that became ISIS. we were trying to install a Sunni theocracy and our proxies got out of hand.

We aren’t the good guys in Syria.

[Zhang Fei]

[By any measure Assad was the most liberal leader in the Middle east. So when our Saudi and Gulf States “Allies” ordered us to do so, we launched the rebel movement that became ISIS. we were trying to install a Sunni theocracy and our proxies got out of hand.

We aren’t the good guys in Syria.]

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Assad should have thought about this outcome when he financed, trained and equipped his Sunni Arabs to go after GI’s in Syria. Even if we did help out the rebels in Syria, we were only returning the favor. As to who the good guys are, if you’re going to point to the Alawites, who financed and harbored Palestinian terrorists who killed Americans, had a role in the deaths of 200 Marines in Lebanon and helped kill thousands of GI’s in Iraq with a flood of Syrian Sunni Arab insurgents, you like Alawites more than you like Americans.

[Zhang Fei]

I think of it as poetic justice that the very Sunni Arabs Assad sicced onto Uncle Sam in Iraq are now doing their level best to bash his head in.

[NorseViking]

The funny thing if you’d asked several years ago any of local russophobes why do they hate the Russians the majority wouldn’t have come with any other idea that a Russian opposition to the Second Iraq War.
But then what was the base of Russian objections.
First they said there is no evidence Saddam involved in 9/11 then there is no WMD and last but not least they said it would destibilize the region empower the terrorists and Iran. Now tell me who are the idiots 15+ years later.