Russia And Russian Television (RT) Give Life To The Bloody Dictator Of Syria

        Russian television insists the Russian campaign in Syria is legitimate because the Assad government is the elected government of Syria. They conveniently ignore the fact that there never was a free and open election, that Assad inherited his post and power from another dictator (his father), and that before all this terrible bloodshed began, there was a nonviolent movement that asked for reform that Assad brutally repressed.
         If only Assad, a western educated eye doctor, gave to the Syrian people what he himself was given- opportunity and freedom. The Syrian people asked for reform. Assad brutally crushed their peaceful protest. People were arrested, tortured, murdered.
        Moderate and peaceful opposition were crushed. In their wake, along with the wake of the completely idiotic American invasion and then untimely withdrawal from Iraq, came the deranged Islamists that filled the vacuum.
         It is necessary to defeat the deranged, demented, genocidal Islamists. But to ignore the mass murder, torture, barrel bombs, and all the other atrocities of the Assad regime, means nothing more than choosing one evil over another.
         The better choice is choosing neither.
         Now the conflict has morphed into war between Shia and Sunni. Most Syrians, unlike Assad, are Sunni. Assad is backed by the Shia regime of Iran, Iranian backed Lebanese Hezbollah, and Shia recruits that Iran hires from Afghanistan and elsewhere.
          Russia entered the bloody war, ensuring that Assad stays in power.