@datafan12 So the "US Left" is Tulsi Gabbard and Richard Black? You have yet provide an example of an elected left wing politician in the US calling to normalize with Assad.
@datafan12 This also ignores that at the height of the Syrian Civil War the DSA was still a marginal political force. Pre 2016, it wasn't even that radical. Just a couple thousand boomer social democrats.
@datafan12 The US didn't have the option it had in Tunisa and Egypt of telling their client leader to step down. It was literally kill Assad and hope it turned out better than killing Gaddafi and Saddam.
@datafan12 Israel is currently bombing them and occupying the southern part of country and Druze separatists are threatening to reignite the war. You can't say it's worked out yet lol
@datafan12 "there might have been a chance" lmao.
We had two back to back examples of US regime change against Arab dictators backfiring, one involving a country being occupied by 150k US troops for almost ten years. Why would they support the same in Syria?
@datafan12 And your foreign policy positions are as impractical and maximalists as the activists who want to abolish police and prisons and have completely open borders with every country on Earth.
@datafan12 How could we know that? We had the example of removing Gaddafi from power in 2011 and that led to civil war and a government that hasn't held elections in 15 years.
@datafan12 Because we already had the then recent example of Gaddafi being taken out, which led to a decade long civil war in Libya and a government that hasn't held an election in nearly 15 years.
@datafan12 Do you think if the US had toppled Assad in the early to mid 2010s, while ISIS was gaining power and influence, it would have improved things at all?