Would this be acceptable if it stopped the bloodshed?

[anotheoldgit]

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After all monster Idi Amin was given sanctuary in Saudi Arabia by the Saudi royal family who paid him a generous subsidy in return for his staying out of politics.

[pdq1]

It may suit the UK and US but would it suit the rebels. Assad's regime would still be in power and probably the tanks will still roll on killing civilians. You get the impression that Assad had no control over his Army otherwise the peace plan by Kofi Annan would have achieved something.

[Theland]

I am not a fan of Assad, but wonder if he is being undermined by the west?

[Duncer]

Reminds me of when I worked in a place called Wadi al Dawasir in Saudi Arabia in the 1990's. I popped up to Jeddah for a weekend, (Thursday/Friday out there), to visit my pal Jim, a guy I had worked with in the UAE. We went to the local store to get some refreshments for the party on the compound that night, (mixers for the Sidique and crisps and nuts to go with the home made beer and wine) and I bumped into a rude and very corpulent black man. Jim found his truculence very funny and it was only when we left the shop that I found out it was Idi Amin. Despite growing up in Northern Ireland, this was a step up in class when it came to being in the proximity of mass-murderers.

[DaisyNonna]

NO

[Duncer]

Honestly Daisy, I did.