Sounds like the start of a beautiful democracy

The article could be clearer, but as far as I can tell, Assad-associated officers have been killed, and those doing the killing have been arrested? If that’s correct, I’m not sure I see a structural problem here (and it’s kind of hard to dig up sympathy for those running the previous regime…), but I might be mistaken.

Sorry everyone who has been cheering them on, there are no good guys. There never are.

I do not know nearly enough about the situation to say either way, but while this sounds unsavory, I often think back about how different things might be in the US, had we actually allowed Sherman to “clean out” the South as it were, after the US Civil War.

It’s nasty business, but perhaps necessary for the long term stability of a country emerging from a long, bloody, civil war.

Again, not clear to me that this is the case here, just playing devil’s advocate for the people who are coming out against this as a knee jerk reaction to political violence… That maybe these things need to be done sometimes, when failing to do so will result in far more bloodshed.