The US was supporting opposing Islamist factions in Syria. Our endless "regime change" strategies have caused untold death and misery. I'm glad Russia helped Assad.

@WilliamCharles So untold death and misery caused by US inspired regime change in Iraq (but not Syria or Ukraine where it was internal dissent that was the trigger) grievously offends your moral sensibilities. But when the corpses start to pile up at the feet of totalitarian Fascist dictators like Assad and Putin you get all misty-eyed and sentimental. Nice.

@NostraDumbass

Our meddling turned Libya into a failed state. We committed war crimes attacking two nations that had nothing to do with 9/11. We tortured people, but when the "good guys" do it, they get a pass.

Fuck that.

@WilliamCharles This is stereotypical narcissistic far left polemic, which insists that nothing bad happens in the world without American complicity. But at what point do the political failures in the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin American and elsewhere become the responsibility of those living there? Must it always, now and forevermore, be the legacy of Western Imperialism/Capitalism? Is there not also such a thing as Arab/Muslim imperialism? Or Chinese? Or Russian? (And one of the 2 countries that was attacked after 9\11 actually had plenty to do with it).