No More Mr Nasty?

[sandyRoe]

How could PR people make Assad of Syria more acceptable to the general public in the UK?
If we were going to side with him in the battle to rid the Middle East of the scourge of IS should more be made of the fact that he's a doctor, and so, a compassionate man?

[sandyRoe]

Just remembered Dr Mengele. The fact that someone's a doctor doesn't always mean they're compassionate.
Back to the drawing board.

[aelmpvw]

more likely that he will be thought of in the crippen, mengele, shipman group of practitioners

[Svejk]

How about the Christians etc. fleeing from IS, in Iraq, are trying to reach the safety of Assad's Syria.

[aelmpvw]

your post wasn't there when i started sandy, strange that we both came up with mengele

[agchristie]

Well, certainly not his British born wife who has been described as a 'Marie Antoinette figure who is completely out of touch with reality'.

[Gromit]

He had an English Education. He was at Uni with half the cabinet (not sure if that would endear him or not).

[ichkeria]

Side with a man who murders men, women and children to defeat an organisation that murders men, women and children? (at least the IS don't kill all the women and children).
As if he could help much anyway, as his country is irrevocably split.
So it is good to hear Hammond speak out. I hope he means it.

[sandyRoe]

aelmpvw, if you were looking for an example of how a dr shouldn't behave you'd be hard pressed to find a better example than him. Great minds thinking alike...

[aelmpvw]

:-)

[sandyRoe]

{i] ... or fools seldom differing :-) [i]

[tonyav]

http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/hammond-rules-out-assad-alliance-1

[anotheoldgit]

ichkeria

/// Side with a man who murders men, women and children ///

All depends on what you class 'murders' as?

If it is the 'killing' of innocent men, women and children, isn't this what happens in war?

[Henrietta]

Why do we keep arming and training various groups only for them to turn on us and then we side with other groups who then eventually turn on us but are now 1000% more dangerous due to the training we've given them and the arms we've given/sold/directed them to which they then arm and train other groups who later become our enemies/friends then enemies once again?

It's like the worlds most dangerous game of "Spin the bottle"

[ichkeria]

"If it is the 'killing' of innocent men, women and children, isn't this what happens in war? "

Depends how it's done. Some would say that deliberate targeting of civilians, which is what both IS and Assad do, is war crime.
I'm not sure people fully realise exactly just what Assad is doing to his own people. Collateral damage is one thing, but this is terrorism.

[sevenOP]

"How could PR people make Assad of Syria more acceptable to the general public in the UK?"

You actually want the spoon feeding of hypocrisy ???

[sandyRoe]

It's been done before. Uncle Joe (Stalin) was a butcher on an industrial scale but that didn't stop us joining with him to defeat a common enemy.

[ichkeria]

Very true Sandy. And there are other examples. But this is a different situation.

[sevenOP]

"It's been done before."

So has genocide.

In the case of Stalin the people were hoodwinked.