How do you solve a problem like Syria?

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Nationalize all private and foreign assets and gradually devolve them to worker control wherever possible, guarantee equal legal rights for all religious/ethnic groups, establish a massive development project for poorer/more rural areas of the country, end discriminatory policies against women and homosexuals, form wide-scale propaganda campaign promoting equality and acceptance. It would either be a smashing success or go down in flames.

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I am choosing to read Snowstalker's and CELTICEMPIRE's posts here as self-aware self-parody of the "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" mindsets all-too-inherent to many ideologues, rather than serious suggestions.

Doing so is a good strategy for preserving one's basic faith in humanity.

>implying that you aren't an ideologue

Can we please stop pretending its possible for someone to approach issues from a 'non-ideological' standpoint, or pretending that being 'non-ideological' is possible?