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Syria is a democratic beacon in comparison to us in the west if you compare.
This comment should tell everyone exactly what they need to know about kosko's political leanings.
Never mind that the Syrian elections are by default fraudulent because the government chooses the candidates that can be voted for. An election where your only choice is from a government approved list of candidates is not an election.
And it's funny you mentioned international monitors, considering the head of the UN, Ban Ki Moon, stated in front of the entire UN assembly, LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AGO,
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"The situation in Syria continues to deteriorate. Each day seems to bring new additions to the grim catalogue of atrocities:
Assaults against civilians … brutal human rights violations … mass arrests … torture … execution-style killings of whole families.
For many months, it has been evident that President Assad and his Government have lost all legitimacy. The recent slaughter in El-Houla brought this fact into horrifying focus.
Men, women, even children were executed at point-blank range; some had their throats slit or skulls crushed.
The trail of blood leads back to those responsible. Any regime or leader that tolerates such killing of innocents has lost its fundamental humanity."
You make it seem as if the UN and international monitors have verified the results of a legitimate, democratic election when exactly the opposite is the case. The entire international community has called for Assad and his criminal regime to step aside.
Comparing an authoritarian dictatorship to the liberal democracies of the west is a frivolous and flippant remark.
The legitimacy of a government is derived from the consent of the governed. Assad's government is illegitimate by definition. Assad is finished. I give him less than 2 years in power before he is killed (hopefully with his bitch wife), in exile, or on trial in front of the ICC.
The Syrian people have a basic human right to choose their own government.
I sincerely can not believe you are defending a government that is committing genocide against its own population.
You should be ashamed of yourself.