Well as usual it's too late thanks to our initial meddling anyway.
I really cannot understand the wests naivity when it comes to Hard line Islamic issues.
In Iraq and Afghanistan we fight Al Qaida
In Syria we support them!!!
The truth is regardless of our revulsion of the non democratic nature of eastern countries in reality Saddam new BEST how to keep his coutry under control and Syria the same.
Anyone thinking that the victory of hardline Islamists can be anything but retrograde even compared to Assads rule has a rude awakening coming.
It's notable how their Arab neighbours are turning their eyes the other way. Nobody seems to want to get involved as this is going to turn really nasty and it could have repercussions all over the Middle East.
Russia and Syria have no pact. They have a loose alliance founded in the 50's when Russia hoped Syria would become a communist state, and has been strained since. Syria is just a pawn in Russia's geopolitical gamesmanship, and would be dropped like a hot potato by Russia, if the SHTF.
We should nuke 'em off the face of the earth. Run a massive oil pipeline through it's scorched land from Iraq.
It's a joke the nonsense we're spoon fed in the western media. The uprising has been funded and run by the Saudi's and by the CIA. They're providing the money and the arms to sustain the uprising. They don't give a toss about 'freeing' the syrian people, the reason they're intervening is to weaken Iran since Syria is Iran's main ally. It's nauseating when you hear western politicians calling for Assad to be overthrown, yet turn a blind eye to the far worse human right abuses in Saudi Arabia and the ongoing occupation of Palestinian land by the Israelis. Syria was a relatively stable country before this all kicked off and one of the only counties in the middle east where other minority religions were treated well.
Once again it's another western intervention in the middle east that has and will continue to cause chaos. The uprising has already been infiltrated by Al Qaeda and other Islamic fundamentalists and there's a good chance that whoever ends up in charge will be far less moderate than Assad ever was. When will we ever learn?