A HECK OF A SITUATION !!!

The founders of western philosophy, the ancient Greeks, guys like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle,thought that the most important philosophical question in the universe, the question to which all other philosophical questions lead, is the question " How should we live ?" The awkward situation in Syria is that all parties ask this same question and each claim the answer opposing the other.


Assuming the question here is whether it's okay for Bashar Assad to run Syria the way he does, or did for the past 12 years, or even the way his father before him did for over thirty years.

I may not know what the best moral or ethical theory is, but if I have any moral knowledge at all, I know that what MR.Assad is doing and might be up to is wrong.

THE Syrian regime and as a last resort for it's survival and the close ones surrounding him, is willing to go into a civil war,and a very bloody one for that, that result in the disintegration of the political structure of Syria as we know it, and the formation of many smaller states, including an Alawite one on most of the coastal geography of actual Syria.All under the same question of " how should we live?"

SO why play around the bush ?? indeed, it's tempting to say that anyone who thinks it is okay for MR. Assad to wreck his country , and ruin the lives of thousands upon thousands of people is a moral incompetent, regardless of the outcome if or when there is a regime change.

A goal of successful countries ought to be to help pull failed countries out of their nightmare.




Thank you for listening and salamat.