Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Indeed, by refusing to tackle Assad's brutality, we may actively alienate more of the Sunni population, driving them towards ISIS.
We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.
Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
Assad has to go. I mean, the way that ISIS can recruit, and the rebels that are in the north, and all the chaos that's happening through a lot of Syria circles around a lot of people that do not like Assad.
I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS.
The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.
To simply demand that Assad go, and create a vacuum, could make the circumstances worse. To 'protect' Assad and his brutality is unconscionable. So you have to have a transition period here.
NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.