Everyone says Assad is some kind of monster because 100,000 people have died so far in Syria’s civil war.
Heck, He didn’t kill’em all.
500,000 or so died in our civil war and most people think Abraham Lincoln was a sweetheart of a guy.
Even though English isn’t his first language, he speaks in his interviews with a lot less “um, er, ah” than some other presidents I could name.
Considering the character of the people in our gubmint who want us to hate him, I find myself liking him more and more.
I suppose he’s probably guilty of something – you don’t get to run a country in the middle east as long as he has without knocking someones heads togeather occasionally, but at least he doesn’t run around in skirts like some of those backwards camel-jockeys.
So what’s the rush?
We know we can always find him if we want him – send a few AP reporters to ask for another interview, and slap a GPS tracker on them.
I love Jean Luc Picard. Just sayin.
If that’s the case doesn’t it violate the prime directive?
Like Picard ever gave anything but the sorriest, back-handed lip-service to the Prime Directive.
Which is, (verbatim from TOS “Bread and Circuses”):
“No identification of self or mission.
No interference with the social development of said planet.
No references to space or the fact that there are other worlds or more advanced civilizations.”
So, the English-speaking French dude gets replaced by the English-speaking French dude?
@4 – Bacon to you, sir, for that observation!
I’m so old I can remember when the worst thing in the leftist world was the US getting involved in another country’s civil war.
Of course, back then the USSR was helping one side of the civil war so it was obvious that we weren’t needed in Vietnam.
Everyone says Assad is some kind of monster because 100,000 people have died so far in Syria’s civil war.
Heck, He didn’t kill’em all.
500,000 or so died in our civil war and most people think Abraham Lincoln was a sweetheart of a guy.
Even though English isn’t his first language, he speaks in his interviews with a lot less “um, er, ah” than some other presidents I could name.
Considering the character of the people in our gubmint who want us to hate him, I find myself liking him more and more.
I suppose he’s probably guilty of something – you don’t get to run a country in the middle east as long as he has without knocking someones heads togeather occasionally, but at least he doesn’t run around in skirts like some of those backwards camel-jockeys.
So what’s the rush?
We know we can always find him if we want him – send a few AP reporters to ask for another interview, and slap a GPS tracker on them.