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13312599, We really don't have a margin for error for this kind of thinking
Posted by Vex_id, Fri Feb-08-19 11:45 AM
>lol... in here trying to tell us Assad aint that bad
Nobody is in here saying Assad is a great guy. But he isn't a proximate enemy/threat of the U.S. - and we shouldn't be waging war to oust him via proxy for Saudi Arabia and Israel (to counter Iran's influence in the region). That shouldn't be the business of our soldiers and our tax dollars.
Was Saddam Hussein a bad guy? Yes - just as Assad is. Should we have invaded Iraq and created the disastrous outcome because he was a "bad guy"? Absolutely not. We'd be infinitely better off if he remained in power - and so would the region and the Iraqi people.
It is not wise to go and demonize every "bad guy" in the world via interventionist regime-change that usurps the sovereignty of that nation and its right to self-determination.
It's dumbfounding that this still needs to be discussed and explained in 2019.
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