If not for Assad, the insurgency in Iraq would have been shut down in a matter of months and Assad has there blood of many, many American troops on his hands.
The ISIS insurgency in Syria was started by the al Qaeda Jihadi entrenched in Syrian bases of operation after they were defeated in Iraq
During the days of ISIS, Assad was lesser of two evils, but he is evil.
Now that ISIS has largely been defeated as a cohesive force in Syria, we are faced with the mess that has been left in Syria and Assad is part of that mess because he needed Iran's help to defeat ISIS and Assad is now in there debt. Iran's Sheite Jihadi are now based and entrenched in Syria just like their ISIS predecessors were and they are intent on collecting their debts, which include destroying Israel and overthrowing the governments of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Assad is now becoming a base to export Jihad in the region and this needs to be stopped before it gets out of control..
I think you have just awoken from a very long geopolitical nap.
Iranian funded terrorist group Hezbollah has held de facto control of southern Lebanon for almost 15 years.
They have something like 60,000 missiles aimed at Israel.
Things have been “out of control” in the eastern Mediterranean for as long as I can remember.
How were the Christians in Iraq doing before Soros started his ‘arab spring’?