Saturday, June 22, 2013

Why We Should Hope Assad Defeats The Insurgents

Assad’s Regime is Appalling But the Alternative is Much Worse
Assad’s regime is appalling, but I can’t blame my Christian friends in Syria for praying that he wins
There are no good guys in the Syrian conflict; people can only choose the lesser of evils


“ . . . My friends in Aleppo who were so good to me when I visited them, are now praying and hoping for an Assad victory. Can you blame them? The Christians of Syria have no real choice in the matter. They have been a tolerated, indeed a privileged, minority under the Ba’athist regime (as they were in Iraq); if the regime falls, their fate will be that of Iraq’s Christians. They cannot understand, indeed are completely bewildered by, what I told them, namely that the British government is considering arming their enemies. They pray that this will not happen, and so do 

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