Ron Paul on Syria gas attack: 'It doesn't make sense. Zero chance Assad did this.'

[spectator11040]

Originally Posted by Redshadowz

Assad was always going to win short of direct US intervention. The United States did eventually intervene but only to take the oilfields in the east.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U10p3Tn9V5Y

I don't like Assad as a person, but I can respect Assad. He is far more intelligent than the last two US presidents, and maybe the last eight. I find that democratic presidents tend to be morons. Dictators on the other hand tend to be highly intelligent.

Whatever you might think of Assad, America started a regime-change war by supporting some of the worst people on Earth, who did nothing but rape and murder Assyrian Christians, and pretty much everyone else they encountered.

And it wasn't to spread freedom and democracy regardless of what our leaders claim. It was because Assad was allied with Russia and Iran. Basically, we created an international catastrophe in pursuance of a geopolitical strategy aimed at defeating the Russians.

Sound familiar?

PS: Link the article. I'll use an archive to read it.

You "respect" Assad? You "respect" a known war criminal who bombed, starved, and gassed a half million? And made a third of the entire population homeless? Are you willing to admit that you "respect" Hitler too? If Assad is "highly intelligent" then Hitler must have been a genius!

The defense of Assad requires a character of amorality. "The Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, has gassed the innocent, bombed hospitals and schools, and made thousands disappear. The evidence is hard to watch but it should be seen. Many risked their lives to tell this story so that — even if Assad is never arrested — he will be, forever, handcuffed to the truth."

The atrocities, and the connections to Assad, are very well documented:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bashar-...es-2021-02-21/

[Redshadowz]

Originally Posted by spectator11040

You "respect" Assad? You "respect" a known war criminal who bombed, starved, and gassed a half million? And made a third of the entire population homeless?

There would have been no war in Syria if it wasn't for the United States arming/funding what became ISIS.

Originally Posted by spectator11040

Are you willing to admit that you "respect" Hitler too? If Assad is "highly intelligent" then Hitler must have been a genius!

Yes on all points.

Originally Posted by spectator11040

The defense of Assad requires a character of amorality.

This is also correct. All governments are amoral. Or to put it another way, all governments are Machiavellian. In the real world, perfection is never an option. You're given two(or more) bad choices, and you must choose the lesser of the evils.

In the case of Syria, Assad was the lesser of the evils. In Libya, Gaddafi was also the lesser of the evils. It might even be true that Saddam Hussein was the lesser of the evils.

What the United States was offering to Syria was the same thing they offered to Libya, a failed-state. You should be happy Assad won.