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argonautweakend posted...

Yeah, thats seems to be the point people talking about the bombs we dropped last year are missing.

those were against isis or to "fight terror"

this was directly against the syrian government. so it makes sense people would care more now ya know.

Actually, most of our efforts in the region were aimed at toppling Assad which included arming rebels who used their weapons directly against Assad's forces.Those weapons generally weren't going "to fight terror" and, in many cases, ended up in the hands of ISIS affiliates who were also against the Syrian government.

Plus, for bombings not aimed at attacking the Assad regime, a "surprising" number of attacks hit Assad's forces.

Jarsky2 posted...

You realize a LOT of dictators start out democratically elected, right? Adolf Hitler, Robert Mugabe, and Ferdinand Marcos were all democratically elected, and not in sham elections either. The majority of their countries made the decision to vote for them (ironically the biggest difference between their rise to power and Trump's).

Supposedly Hitler wasn't actually elected when he first got in. A professor gave me some long explanation about a coalition government or something. But whatever, let's just say he was elected because Chavez was also elected and that guy was a monstrous dictator as well. As for Trump being a dictator, he hasn't even done a fraction of the stuff Obama did (although he might, because each president is an extension of the previous one) and you never called Obama a dictator.
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