What will be the reasoning taken, what are the guidelines for AI to make this choice? If, as a government official, you are using AI for any action, you should be required to publish the model you are using and the specific prompt you are using.
An analysis could then be run on many different seeds for the model and prompt - some will label you as a 100% traitor to democracy, some will label you as a fighter for justice. That is almost certain.
Now what is the extent you are comforable with? Should we ban somebody whose actions are marked as traitorous in 10% of seeds? 20%? 80%? Do you actually believe anybody in the government, making these decisions, sees this nuance?
How can you believe there's any good faith in this?
Of course not. But is this view, that these Baathists should have remained in place support of them? In some way it must be, since it prefers them over something, right?
Even so, this is purely motivated by that I believe that their alternatives would slaughter or permit slaughter of all the minorities, in particular Christians, which is what happened at least in Iraq, so in practice it means that my view, rather than supporting any of these guys per se leads to opposition only to destabilizing these countries or other attempts to root them out.
So I suppose it depends on how you define support.
Color me extremely skeptical.