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eissa

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5. Evil is not always brought down by good
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 05:31 PM
Feb 2012

Sorry, but those "pro-democracy" protestors are not exactly the warm, fuzzy type. These are people who have been waiting for decades to sieze their opportunity, and with the "Arab Spring" events decided this was their time to finally rid themselves of a leader who isn't like them. Who isn't a Sunni, whose wife doesn't don a ninja outfit, whose sect (Alawi) many even consider heretic, whose parliament consists of many women (most uncovered), and who even has a Christian among his cabinet. Is Assad a brutal dictator? Of course. Is the opposition any better? Hardly.

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