Originally Posted by Bristoe


Actually, I think Putin is propping up stability. Iraq and Libya are representative of what happens to a failed state in the Middle East. The crazies who control U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East want Syria to become another Iraq.


Never thought about it in that way, but your are probably right in many respects about Syria being better off with Assad.

Re the "moderate Syrian rebels"..I guess people don't remember America and the West arming and training the Mujahideen only for them to turn on the West as the Taliban a few years later..