Bashir Al-Assad is a murderous dictator - but his wife has great fashion sense!

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Hateful yes, but not particularly discriminatory. Rare is the dictator who can hold power without having to shed blood. That said, Bashar has been one of the saner dictators around, probably because he spent most of his life never expecting to hold power until his brother Basil killed himself in a car crash.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

"Murderous" connotes a certain cheerful delight in death that I don't think Bashar has, Mikado.  He's a ruthless SOB who certainly doesn't flinch from it when he thinks he needs to protect his position or mourn about what he has had done, but I don't think he gleefully anticipates people dying.  For example I doubt that had he been in Gaddafi's tent at the time, I don't think he would have ever sanctioned bombing a West Berlin disco, as Gaddafi did in 1986.  Even if it hadn't been traced back to him, it would have done nothing to secure his own power.