Also, sometimes "terrorists" give up their armed struggle. That's something that should be encouraged. If you go with the idea of "once a terrorist, always a terrorist" then there's no incentive for so-called "terrorists" to ever change their ways.

And, from a more practical matter, he's in charge of Syria now. If the international community wants Syrians to be free, happy and healthy they have to try to work with him. If they cut off all aid to Syria and refuse to work with him, then the only people who will work with him are all the various bad actors of the region. They shouldn't necessarily fully trust him, but they should give him an opportunity to show he has the best interests of the Syrian people at heart.

They split over disagreements

"Listen, are we proxies of the CIA or not, guys?"

Whether he’s actually a terrorist is hard to say

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_al-Sharaa#War_crimes_of_al-Nusra_(2012%E2%80%932016)

Under al-Shara'a's leadership, al-Nusra Front and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham perpetrated a series of war crimes, suicide bombings, forced conversions, ethnic cleansing and sectarian massacres against Syria's Christian, Alawite, Shia and Druze minorities. These included the January 2012 al-Midan bombing, which killed 26 people and wounded 63.

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ADL put spez on their tech advisory board apparently back in 2017. So I guess they've been a fucking joke for a while.

He cut off Iran's supply to Hasbulla in Lebanon, cut off Iran's reach to Israel, gave Israel extra strategic lands, let Israel destroy all previous regime's Russian/Iranian military equipments and now he has announced normalizing relations with Israel.

Then US immediately rewarded him with investments and aid contracts from the other dictatorship gulf countries, who are good dictatorships btw they say USA Good. They invest in the US, ONLY allowed to buy US defense contracts, tie their currencies to the US dollar ONLY and basically keep all their country resources under the exploitation of the US for the mere beautiful American/Western-values sponsored cost of emprovishing and beheading their citziens every fucking month for talking on twitterz and depriving them of human rights :D

When I've let my mustache grow in I've been told I exuded porn star energy.

I shaved it off immediately. I'm NOT my father!

That's just resting beard face.

Ex-wife hated my beard, said it made me look always angry. Still don't think the beard was the issue.

He doesn't really look angry to me. And he does have a beard and is Arab so those seem like things that will be in every picture of him.

I'm sure hos photo is from the wanted list and hers is from her bio somewhere, but the juxtaposition just serves to magnify the point.

No because the left image is what people have been sold as the stereotype of a terrorist.

Rojava is fighting ISIS, and to support them, NATO are fighting Rojava, because God forbid there's a feminist state in the middle east.

Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum - The peaceful Roman Empire.

prefer to hit mara lago

Yeah the way that it's positioned, as though through image alone she is self evidently less dangerous than he is, is definitely islamophobic & racist.

He's projecting the same orientalism back at the empire to illustrate a point. It was never about wearing a beard. Or even about joining ISIS.

It was about not being a politically advantageous ally to the US empire.

This meme is what the average American discourse is like

It's likesomething that could be satirized in Always Sunny In Philadelphia

I don't know: it's inherently ambiguous. How do you know which is the man & which is the woman? Maybe they're the same person.

Are you possibly misgendering & being racist? 🤨

(I thought the message had more to do with the words than the images.)

Jolani is literally an Al Qaeda commander who is now the dictator, sorry, President of Syria. His thugs are massacring Christians, Druze and Alawites in the same way as his ISIS brothers were doing.

But he is now the darling of the West because he isn't pro Palestinian and kisses Trumps ring.

It is funny how your comment reveals more about your own prejudices than anybody else.