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You see what people in post industrial societies do not understand is that most of the Third World is still in "raw" state. I don't have time to write a long thesis but the fact is most Third World countries raw, unformed and will have to go through the "mill" to evolve into modern societies, This process of forming is not pretty. Think of Europe between 1850-1950. Century of wars, genocides and mass repression, hate, think of Stalin in Russia, Hitler in Germany, Duce in Italy. think of chaos of war that the spread acros Europe. Making of modern state is not pretty and not too dissimilar to birth of human being. It involves lot of pain. The effect is pre industial feudal order id destroyed and replaced with a uniform order where the state prevails but gives the invidual freedom within certain parameters found on universal consensus.
That is why Syria needs it's Stalin, Libyia needed it's Duce and Iraq needed it's Adolph. All we did by interfering in this natural process was cause even more chaos and you can see what the result is. The society that Assad wants to build would be where you in a Romanian could walk through and feel quite at ease. In absence of that you have ISIL and you know what means. Death or migrants. Both bad news.
Top Gear in Syria before 2010. Listen to Jeremy Clarkson. Just before the war.
Go to 55:00 for Syria
You can't compare the world in the 17th-19th century with the globalised world in which we live today mate.
In today's globalised world where we all have access to social media , internet, access to global 24hrs news agences(grated they are all created and led by the west) . Etc obviously people in the underdeveloped and developing world will yearn to live in a democratic wealthy free country like they see in other countries in the western world, Japan, Korea, etc. You can't compare today's world with the closed primitive era of the past where everything was totally different.
Today it's much more easy for countries to adapt, and news to flow in seconds around the world. In short the world is getting closer, more harmonious,more uniform and smaller with each passing year. It's far more easier for countries to adopt other more sucessful systems than it was in the past. So citizens of these countries obviously often yearn for the same, whether they are delusional/unrealistic or not remains to be seen
You have a point. However, as I said several times on here,many of you also forget that our so called 'secular' Assad also supported these same terrorists groups in Iraq during the U.S/U.K invasion of Iraq. He openly supported these Islamic terrorists groups by providing them sanctuary, training, finance, logistics and equipment against 'infidel imperialist' U.S and British soldiers in Iraq. His actions also helped fueled the Iraqi sectarian war killing thousands of Iraqi civilians in the process.I am sure the rebels treat their prisoners far worst than the Syrian Government forces.
No one is saint in this conflict but Assad is the lesser of the two evils and on top of that he is doing the world a favor by killing the ISIS fanatics. Assad FTW...
His former minions have now come back to bite their former master.
Go do some reseach about this . Sorry but I'm shedding no tears for his brutal regime
Nobody is holy in this region.
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