Do They Ever Learn?

[waltergulick]

Originally Posted by pennyone

we should have helped Assad restore order and rule over Syria from the beginning so that he would become our ally and crush Isis and other "democratic" islamist nut freaks....

Except Assad is systematically executing his opponents using very barbaric tactics.

Now you might argue that as the leader of his country he has every right to harshly deal with those who would take up arms against his government, but that is another debate altogether.