"I don't know enough".
Perfectly said.
I don’t know enough to have strong opinions on which is better for Syria. I would guess the new regime because of how horrible Assad was, but that’s little more than a prior. As for the claim about foreign born rebels, it’s difficult to find numbers on this but the best estimates I can find put that number as numbering in the few thousands.
https://observers.france24.com/en/middle-east/20241220-syria-foreign-fighters-jihadism-extremism
All I’m claiming is that wailing about the poor Assad regime being slandered is flat out wrong. There’s mountains of evidence that the Assad regime did in fact commit lots of war crimes.
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Thank you! As David Hume said “A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”
If you don’t have a large amount of evidence to back up your belief, then you should have a low amount of conviction in your belief. I think one of the most important things in public discourse is clearly communicating how strong your convictions are on a topic.