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In reply to the discussion: Russia has started bombing ISIS/coordinating with Syrian gov. [View all]killbotfactory
(13,566 posts)If we gave a shit about human rights as a principle of foreign policy, we wouldn't be allies with Saudi Arabia. Our government waged an illegal war in Iraq that has led to the death and displacement of millions. We even exported our foriegn prisoners to Syria and Libya for those regimes to torture some folks. The ones we didn't want to subject to "non-torture".
The reason these states are brutal in the first place is because they are sitting on a tinder box. They are resource rich, home to many different ethnic factions, and are targets for the US and our allies in the region because they are not pro-west.
All sides are bad in this, but it's a choice between one side which has maintained a secular and mostly peaceful and stable society where different ethnic groups lived in relative peace (before this fucking war) vs. a side that throws old gay men off of buildings, proudly massacres minorities, and enslaves women.
Tough shit to the Saudi's who want to take over the country, or the Israeli's who want to make life hard on Hezbollah and Iran, or to the West who want to shut down Russia's port. None of those goals are worth more than the lives of the people caught up in this nightmare.