That's the problem here, you (and the majority of commentators not merely on this forum, but practically everywhere i can find, especially where boomers are posting in large numbers) are biased and refuse to even acknowledge the possibility that your assessments are biased. You refuse to countenance even the very possibility of Assad being a good person. This not just the reaction to the views stated by me, this true within society itself, note just in the last few days the organized smear campaign being initiated against Tulsi Gabbard by both Democrats and Republicans simply because she has an opinion that contradicts the dominant orthodoxy on Syria.FishbellykanakaDude wrote:You haven't made the case that Assad is a "good person".CH86 wrote:Assad is a GOOD person, something boomers on this forum are seemingly incapable of understanding or grasping. Without Assad, Syria would have gone under. Assad is the rock shielding Syria from that fate.
Just make your case, and we'll believe you. I would suggest explaining what you mean by "good", and why Syria "going under" would have been a "bad" thing.
Personally, since I believe that that which happens (actually occurs) is the "best possible outcome" of what could have happened in every case, even though that may not be obvious at the time, Syria's NOT "going under" was in fact a "good" thing to have happened, and Assad NOT "being killed" was a "good" thing to have happened, I (apparently) agree with you that WHAT HAPPENED was "good",.. but I have a sneaking suspicion that your definition of "good" may be different from mine.
Anyway,.. make your case. Then we can at least understand what you MEAN, and agree to disagree, if not agree to agree.
The same way you dismissed alternative suggestions when I mentioned the example of "Schindler's list" and the historical events that the movie is based on; you acknowledge that the Jews who were killed were good people who didn't deserve being killed, you are capable of acknowledging that Schindler started out as evil but becomes a good person by realizing that what he was participating in was evil and moved to make a contribution to stopping it. Yet boomers like yourself and boomer acolytes, refuse to even consider the possibility that the commandant was good person, the very idea of the commandant being a good person is rejected by your generation. Same with unit 731 in the pacific, boomers reject the very idea of Shiro Ishii being a good person and being merely an officer fighting in a war.