The problem with supporting dictators is that this is a powerful recruiting argument for Isis.<p>&quot;Look at the West, they claim to be democracies and defend human rights, but they are supporting mass-murders here&quot;<p>...which makes the West looks like a bunch of hypocrites. And this is an argument that is factually hard to counter.<p>Frankly, I don&#x27;t know what we should be doing. I don&#x27;t see a solution without a long political roadmap with likely a partition of Syria &amp; Irak, to have an Alawite state, next to a Sunni state, next to a Shia Iraq.