Syria......break it down for me ya'll!

The rebels are a more diverse bunch than you give them credit for.

Yeah it's all 50 shades of Oppression.

Group A wants 100% Oppression.

Group B only wants 90% Oppression.

Fuck them.

No, fuck you. These groups are not interested in oppressing anyone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_Secular_and_Democratic_Syrians

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Coordination_Committees_of_Syria

Among many others.

You know people who actually saw chemical weapons being shipped out of Iraq in the direction of Syria? Did they report this?

And those groups won't even come close to being the new government.

They certainly won't without support.

Even with support they won't.

You're naivety and idiotic world view blind you to reality. Those groups will never touch the levers of power in Syria.

Liberal democracy has been advancing all over the world for centuries and is almost ubiquitous at this stage. I think it is you who has a problem with his worldview if you think it impossible in Syria for all time.

Repeating mistakes of vietnnam might be?

Where's the cutoff point for that cynicism?

Depending where it is, one could argue that the Cold War was folly, and we should have just been isolationist during those years, and hoped for the best.

Don't think you're gonna get a lot of your conservative buddies to back you on that one.

No, see, that's the Ron/Rand Paul 20/20 Hindsight Retconned Revisionist version.