Do you just get talking points from Marco Rubio's speeches or something? I've never seen responses as programmatically predictable as yours. The US has propped up plenty of people whose ability to stay in power was much less than Assad's. In fact, if the Saudis and Turks hadn't started massive weapons gifts to the Syrian opposition his position would never have gotten as dicey as it did. That, combined with the fact that weakness encourages dissent, put him where he is today.
The US should just admit that there are no "good guys" in Syria and let Putin do whatever he wants to in order to prop up Assad because, as I've said, Assad is better than the alternatives. Qaddhafi was better, too. So was Saddam. So was Mubarak, though thankfully the army got the fiasco that was Morsi under control early enough.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
