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Originally Posted by FunkMasterFlame
Yes, using the word "fall" is only correct if your sympathies lie with the various Al-Qaeda affiliated militias that have occupied Eastern Aleppo for the past 4 years. For everyone else (including the civilians who have been trapped as hostages and human-shields) its a Liberation.
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All too often we look for 'good guys' and 'bad guys' in conflicts. This civil war is between a murderous dictatorship and an amagamation of religious zealots whose oppression might match or exceed the murderous dictatorship. While everyone is claiming moral outrage that the US didn't intervene, I would say as a third party there was no reason to add American lives to the casualties and risk a greater international incident with Russia for the sake of Islamist extremists.