You get what you get with Assad- tin pot dictator in a saddam like strongman mold who oppresses everyone equally, yet squashes all radicalization. He’s a balance to the natural menace of islamists in the region.
Notice the entire ME was more stable with madmen like Hussein, Mubarak, and Gaddafi running the place than the current opposite.
IMHO, Soetoro is a Shiite muslim for causing all the instability and allowing Iran the upper hand.
That’s what I thought...