The problem with supporting dictators is that this is a powerful recruiting argument for Isis. "Look at the West, they claim to be democracies and defend human

The problem with supporting dictators is that this is a powerful recruiting argument for Isis. "Look at the West, they claim to be democracies and defend human rights, but they are supporting mass-murders here" ...which makes the West looks like a bunch of hypocrites. And this is an argument that is factually hard to counter. Frankly, I don't know what we should be doing. I don't see a solution without a long political roadmap with likely a partition of Syria & Irak, to have an Alawite state, next to a Sunni state, next to a Shia Iraq.