Quote Originally Posted by World's End Stella View Post
Are you being serious? You think this is about Assad fighting terrorism as opposed to desperately clinging to power because so many of his countrymen despise him?
Most of his countrymen prefer him now to the headchoppers, which is the choice everyone needs to make at this point. The armed opposition are not the pro-democracy campaigners of the old days (in fact democratic reforms have since been implemented). They are Islamists. Assad is both clinging on to power and maintaining a secular state against an Islamist, terrorist state. Pick a side.