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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, but. . .

He asked the pro-Christian President to step down, over the churches begging us not to get involved to avoid a genocide, applauded the "Arab Spring," called for democracy and freedom there, backed the Free Syria Army rebels, bombed the country, sent special forces in to take the government down, and now we blame ISIS and Al Nusra moving in and taking over on Bush.[/quote]

Categorizing Assad as "pro-Christian" is questionable, and it is likely that had Assad stepped down, and a compromise been reached between the opposition and pro govt moderates, Syrian Christians would be far better off.

Churches have had different positions, I certainly don't think there is a unanimous church position on Syrian intervention.

Yes, the Arab Spring originally was driven in large part by liberals (small l)  who really did want to move on to democratization.  In Tunisia it has largely led to the results arab spring optimists expected. In Egypt and Bahrain, it meant a restoration of the status quo. In Yemen, Libya and Syria it led to civil war, though in Libya at least it seems very likely most people will end up much better off.

Yes, few US govts oppose democracy and freedom.

Our backing for the FSA has in fact been fairly limited.

Our bombing of Syria has been aimed at ISIS, not at the Syrian state. Similarly for our special forces.

While ISIS has been strong in Syria, they emerged out of AQ in Iraq, which developed as a result of the US invasion (and how the occupation was managed(.

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