Lay off the sarcasm buddy. It's hard enough to make sense of what you're trying to say already...
So what's your point? That Assad is a brutal dictator? That he tortured and killed his people? Well get in line...
Now what? What do you want to do with that? Do you want to take him out and replace him with people who not only will not provide any political freedom, rule of law, fair and neutral justice system or any form of participatory government, but will take away the few personal freedoms and a relatively modern education that the Syrians enjoy? Cause if you think armed Islamists whose sole mission is to make people live like the 7th century Arabia will somehow magically build a tolerant society and a representative government, then I have an amazing ocean front property to sell you on Kepler-16b...
Democracy is not a piece of paper you win at the end of a bloody war. As a matter of fact, I can't think of any revolutions that resulted in democracies. Because democracy is a state of mind. It's a set of principles and values exercised by the masses of the people. It requires each member of the society to freely exercise his/her choice. And what that implies is that you need to have the space for differences in beliefs, thoughts, views, tastes, choices, etc... In short, you need tolerance! The prerequisite for all of this is a tolerant society.
Can you see now why democracy, political freedom, freedom and thought and expression, etc... are so difficult to take hold in middle east? Because we ourselves, are intolerant people. Now dealing with that is the real battle. That is the true revolution. That's what takes a lot of hard work, with even more heart and courage. And unfortunately for the lazy minded folks looking for a quick fixes, there are no shortcuts. Because societies take a long time to evolve. Cultures, mindsets, principles don't change so quickly. The fastest way to do it is to bite the bullet, pay the heavy price and go for the non-violent, peaceful evolution and incremental change. No gun wielding thugs offering easy solutions will solve the problem. You'll just be jumping from the frying pan, into the fire... into hell.
Hey man that’s one hell lot of a quite quality post up there, and one thing for sure is that you do deserve a tap on shoulder for that.
But as I know you are a thinking man, let me try to further more the boundaries of the very discussion you started here.
As human specialists through the whole history have implied, there are some few genuine human instincts accepted as fundamental parts of human essence and the rest of features are either some shoots of those basic instincts or something forced through the might of what we call it law.
Hence you can’t just sit there and hope for those non instincts to grow in masses.
Let me explain it in other words, this is accepted that any homo sapiens getting thirsty would go for drinking water cause that’s a quest to survive and surviving is a genuine aspect of human instinct and nature, but for example something like charity is not in human nature, I mean for sure there are plenty of precious charities happening all over the globe in the name of this homo sapiens name, but doing charity is not something intrinsic and nature rooted. Some are trying to put on a show to make it through the hearts of the audience, some are trading this charity thing for the cause of a greater good you might call it heaven, and many other reasons for the cause of this positive and praised characteristic called generosity, you know why, cause this moral feature is not a genuine part of human essence, hence while happening you have to dig among the basic instincts for the real cause.
All I’m trying to say is the fact that tolerance in essence is not a genuine part of human nature and you just can’t sit aside hoping for it to grow in size in human race.
As for the case of the western societies it’s not like everyone is tolerant enough to tolerate the opposing believes and opinions, but the overwhelming consequence of not being tolerant is just too heavy to burden. Hence for everyone to respect the basic desire to survive is better to act tolerant or else face the crushing consequences.
So may I ask what would be your solution to preach this characteristic among those societies, do you believe in the rule of law, then how shall that law be enforced? Isn’t it passed enough of human history that make you believe that for the laws to be enforced in human societies there needs to be principle instruments that they aren’t going to be heterogenesis.
Or you just believe that the growing maturity in human wisdom caused by the explosion of fast evolving technology would ease the way for a collective awareness that would lead into a more tolerant human society? Something that I don't believe in.
I want to know what would be your idea to preach that tolerance?
Sometimes i can't believe how some people can be so naive/misinformed. lol
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Only a fool will deny this/think otherwise. Moreover, i said before, many people actually forget that as recently as 6-8 years ago Dictator Assad and his familly(i call it a monarchy since its a familly based clan ruling the country for over half a century now, from father to son etc.lol ) backed by his mullah patrons in Tehran were actually supporting Al Qaeda and other terrorist/insurgents groups in Iraq against iraqi civilians/U.S/British soldiers. The U.S/U.K publicly asked them to stop such support invane, since according to Assad and his mullah GOD fathers these terrorists groups were simply fighting an infidel army in muslim holy lands(not much different from ISIS slogans today isnt it?
) . As they say Karma is bitch, now these very same type of terrorists are now hunting their former masters. Why i'm not surprised?
