This was my immediate thought also, whatever part of me that is making the decision already exists so this is the same question as “would you want to stop existing now?” the answer to which is an emphatic “no.” I’d exist indefinitely given the choice.
I checked this dude out on notoriously Western aligned wikipedia and even they’re admitting that he spent six years working for ISIS along with his al-Nusra and al-Qaeda “service.”
The YouTube comments are all “oh finally a good moderate leader who will bring peace and democracy to Syria.” Disgusting.
Yeah, they were just following orders