Once Western leaders stop trying to impose the be-all and end-all of 'democracy' on Syria and let Assad get a grip of his country, then maybe there will be some stability in the Middle East. Ask the Israelis who they would rather have as their neighbour...
Brutal as he may have been and continue to be, what would we rather have? A stable, strong dictatorship or a bunch of fruitcakes intent on blowing up the world? (And I'm not referring to Reagan, Nixon, Brezhnev or Stalin...
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