pendragon
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« on: September 16, 2014, 01:56:40 AM » |
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Even if we look at Syria through the "liberal-internationalist" lens where everything is about genocide-prevention, anyone who knows the first thing about the Syrian war is that if the rebels, "moderate" or otherwise, win, it is a certainty that there will be a genocide of Syrian Alawites, Christians, Druze, and possibly Kurds. On the other hand, it isn't possible for Assad to perpetrate a genocide on the Sunnis who are 2/3rds of the population.
So, by liberal-internationalist criteria - that prioritize the minorities' lives over the majority's feels - it is necessary to support Assad or at least allow him to win, in order to prevent a massive genocide.
(And, as others have pointed out, from a realist point of view, IS is a massive threat to American interests while Assad isn't much of one at all. Assad is the only force in Syria capable of defeating IS, the only one willing to vigorously press the offensive against IS until it is defeated and to continue to vigorously suppress it afterwards, and the only one mutually unwilling to come to some sort of accommodation with IS. So realism dictates hitching your cart to Assad as well).
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