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Excellent comment until the last sentence. My advice: don't try so hard to pick sides, when both sides are terrible.
by andrepd 5y ago
Excellent comment until the last sentence. My advice: don't try so hard to pick sides, when both sides are terrible.
- avmich 5y agoChurchill once said "If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons." Both sides might be imperfect, yet it may have perfect sense - obligation even - to pick the right side.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoNo, it fell apart earlier. Saudi Arabia does not get to be in the "democracy" club. It may get to be in the "our allies" club, but nobody confuses Saudi Arabia with a democracy. Also: Syria may have elections. That doesn't make it a democracy.
- pphysch 5y agoAnd yet when the Atlantic elite talks about "advancing democracy", regime change in Saudi Arabia is never on the menu. Funny that.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoI'm not the Atlantic, but it's not on my menu. Not because the government of KSA is decent, but because of how strongly I suspect that it would be replaced by something worse.
- pphysch 5y agoDoes that same logic apply to Syria?
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoIt might.
- andrepd 5y agoThat so-called logic didn't apply to the over 100 instances of regime change by the US in the past century did it? From banana massacres to Iran, Guatemala, or Timor.
- justicezyx 5y agoSure, make yourself a reasonable force in steering your nation's government, and then come here to lecture us how you are against the authoritarian regimes, and want them disappear. I'll be very happy to work with someone who has the actual power to make things happen, not some half-assed bombing and then nothing changed except the rubbishes on the ground...
- pphysch 5y agoHow am I picking sides? Regurgitating NATO's narratives about "authoritarian/totalitarian" (utterly vacuous terms) states means picking sides. How is Syria any less a democracy than USA?