07-12-2018, 09:39 PM
(07-12-2018, 07:47 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: Boomers universally refuse to acknowledge Bashar Al-Assad's contribution to defending civilization in Syria from barbarism and his courage determination and dedication to ruthlessly fight and stamp out Islamist barbarism until Syria is completely cleansed of this scourge.
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Missionaries universally refuse to acknowledge Adolf Hitler's contribution to defending civilization in Europe from barbarism and his courage determination and dedication to ruthlessly fight and stamp out Judeo-Bolshevik barbarism until Europe is completely cleansed of this scourge.
...Bashir Assad is a mass murderer on a smaller scale, but that is not enough to get him off the hook. Tim McVeigh was a mass murderer on a smaller scale than Bashir Assad... and he has been judged harshly if fairly.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
