Iains is right, any armed revolt in the UK, the US, or any other "civilised" nation would be put down by the killing of their own people.

You forget that even before the war Assad was dealing not with malleable socialists or democratic protesters, but with half mad Jihadi's, many different factions all fighting among themselves like ferrits in a sack.

Our way of life, our democratic systems, do not work amongst Islamic Fundamentalists.....of course you know that, or should know that after the debacles in Iraq and Libya........but its the only prop you have for your crazy ideology.