And what's worse is that Israel will now be our proxy and we will do all to protect and shore them up. And we will turn a blind eye to their injustices, much in the way we tacitly or blatantly helped oppress and murder Jewish folk over centuries.
But two wrongs don't make a right.
Nevertheless, I digress.
Even if 45 sends in the Marines, Assad will remain. How much he is a monster and how much a figurehead for a monstrous regime is open to question. Even so, he should be in prison awaiting trial right now, but that isn't going to happen. Having criminals or madmen in charge of countries is a fairly common situation and not just in African or South American nations. The number of democracies which have or will succumb to criminal leadership is the number of democracies we have; it's a fault integral to the system which cannot be patched, a bit like the current theory of schizophrenia being the price we pay for language. In both cases this is a price which we must pay because the available alternatives are worse: to be without democracy, or to be without language.
(The Ursula K le Guin story en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas springs to mind when dealing with the schizophrenia problem. If our advantages accrue from language, those humans for whom language leaves schizophrenic can be locked up and forgotten about while we get on with enjoying ourselves. Which has been our policy since mad people stopped being holy.)
And I digress again. Boo. Just can't keep on topic today.
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Date: 10/4/18 07:10 (UTC)But two wrongs don't make a right.
Nevertheless, I digress.
Even if 45 sends in the Marines, Assad will remain. How much he is a monster and how much a figurehead for a monstrous regime is open to question. Even so, he should be in prison awaiting trial right now, but that isn't going to happen. Having criminals or madmen in charge of countries is a fairly common situation and not just in African or South American nations. The number of democracies which have or will succumb to criminal leadership is the number of democracies we have; it's a fault integral to the system which cannot be patched, a bit like the current theory of schizophrenia being the price we pay for language. In both cases this is a price which we must pay because the available alternatives are worse: to be without democracy, or to be without language.
(The Ursula K le Guin story en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas springs to mind when dealing with the schizophrenia problem. If our advantages accrue from language, those humans for whom language leaves schizophrenic can be locked up and forgotten about while we get on with enjoying ourselves. Which has been our policy since mad people stopped being holy.)
And I digress again. Boo. Just can't keep on topic today.