annatar1914 wrote:@Hakeer :
Understanding and knowedge are two different things, when the foundation upon which this knowledge is added is predicated on error.
But no matter. Even in the West the Liberal will be replaced, " useful idiots" always are. Interesting how you cannot comprehend that Assad is actually one of you....
“Academics and analysts have characterized Assad's presidency as a highly personalist dictatorship,[b] which governs Syria as a totalitarian police state,[c] and has been characterised by numerous human rights violations and severe repression. While the Assad government describes itself as secular, various political scientists and observers note that his regime exploits sectarian tensions in the country. The first decade in power was marked by intense censorship, summary executions, forced disappearances, discrimination against ethnic minorities and extensive surveillance by the Ba'athist secret police.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-AssadAssad is a fascist dictator. His government is as far from liberalism as I can possibly imagine. As I have told you before, the core of liberalism is constitutional democracy…
> A multi-party political system.
> Free and fair elections.
> Freedom of speech.
> Freedom of religion.
> Freedom of assembly.
> Freedom of the press.
> Rule of law (not rule by dictator)
These are all fundamental elements of liberalism that are entirely lacking in the Assad government.
Having said all that, do I want to go into their country with a military invasion like we did in Iraq and Afghanistan? NO! NO! NO! I have seen over and over how that has worked out. Assad is a problem for the people of Syria to resolve — whether by democratic means or armed revolution. The Jihadists may install a Taliban-style repressive government. They probably will. But I will say that the same for that government as I said about the U.S. most powerful military in the world fighting with the Taliban for 20 fucking years! It doesn’t work! That is not an “error.” It is a proven fact.