Nine times out of ten, you should be skeptical that the fall of a bad guy means that the people who ousted him are the good guys.
The world rarely works that way, which is why I am more than a little confused by the celebration of the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.
Don’t get me wrong; in principle, I think it is wonderful that after more than five decades, the Assads have been unceremoniously ushered off the world stage and exiled to Russia. It wouldn’t bother me in the least to see Assad tried, convicted, and executed for his crimes against the Syrian people.
But in the real world, I worry that what replaces Assad’s rule in Syria will not be a decent government that rebuilds the country into something more humane but a chaotically-run failed state that breeds and shelters terrorists, exports violence, is filled with even more atrocities committed…
