Failed

I thought about this too, if you can't beat them, join them. But, for two main reasons I couldn't do it. First and foremost, when I see countries in the middle east and the videos of the police and military decimating the civilians, it makes me sick. That's their own people. I've liked a facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/SyrianDayOfRage

This page posts videos of civilians killed on a daily basis, multiple times a day. Children's bodies torn apart, torture victims, the most brutal and disgusting acts that make the scenes from Nazi detention camps look inviting.

Second, if history has taught us anything, the brutal regimes always end up on the losing side of the battle at some point. And those who participated pay dearly.