[SunkenCiv]

Definitely time for boots on the ground, huh? Actually well past time for that, since the Assad Jr regime couldn’t hit the floor with a handful of grapes. He’s been great at assassinating some of his enemies, apart from getting fingered for his crimes. He showed his prowess at shooting unarmed Syrian citizens and bringing on a civil war.

His disarming of all Christian citizens, part of a centuries-long practice by muzzie overlords, will lead to their deaths, assuming they haven’t already fled (millions of Syrians are refugees outside of Syria). They should arm themselves and defend themselves, or flee. If they want to flee, I’m all in favor of resettling them in Detroit.

[Cronos]

They can't arm and defend themselves after centuries of being cowed down -- it's like asking the Jews to do that during the Holocaust.

Assad is not good, but he's better than the other options except if the US invades Syria and Lebanon and creates a Christian majority state and an Alevi state and lets the desert between them and the Iraqi Shias and the Kurds become the IS caliphate (with a nice fence between them)

[Cronos]

please note also that Assad, while killing many Moslems is no better nor worse than any other Arab state or Turkey

And besides Turkey, Iran and now Tunisia, none of the Islamic Middle Eastern states are even a little bit democratic