On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 17:18:22 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 10/1/15 5:15 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 10/2/2015 5:29 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:18:28 -0400, wrote:

If Assad was deposed, Syria would turn into the same black hole Iraq
turned into when we killed Saddam.

I know we are supposed to hate totalitarian dictators but they seem to
be the only ones who can hold down the crazies in these places.

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Sometimes the world is full of tough choices. Hindsight being 20/20,
I'd vote for stability. The notion of democratic government is
totally alien to the prevailing culture. They have no foundation for
it unfortunately.



Very true.



Right, because our support of horrific right-wing dictators who
eventually were deposed has worked out so well for us. You know,
Battista, the Shah, the South Vietnamese generals, the wonderful guys in
Nicaragua and Panama...et cetera.


I am thinking more about things that happened in this century.
Saddam, Q-daffy, Mubarak
How did that work out?