Are we siding with those who fight ISIS, or with those who protect them??

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47. Assad was a model head of state?

Excuse me? What did they put in your water?

His father was a worse dictator than the chinless eye doctor, but Assad the Lesser was still a dictator. He was only a "model head of state" when it was necessary to fantasize in order to contradict Bush II, who must be contradicted at all times. If Syria's part of the axis of evil (was it?), then the knee-jerk reaction was that Syria was a progressive, egalitarian, enlightened state. Why? Because Bush II decried it, and because by calling it so perhaps it would become so.

Stupid idea. A cesspool filled with pig feces by any other name is still a a pig-feces-filled cesspool and by no means Crater Lake.

It was the same with Qaddhafi. He had a number of firm supporters here as long as he fought Western imperialism and helped the right left-wing dictators on the continent. As soon as he turned tail and went all Bushie, his supporters suddenly discovered his torture chambers and how horrible it was that Bush II had against found a dictator that he liked.

For the record, I've thought straight along that Assad the Lesser was just a lesser dictator, never a good guy. Still, supporting those who sought to overthrow him was also, in my opinion, no less foolish than calling him a "partner for peace" and "reformer," as some did during Bush II's tenure.