"President Assad ruled over a viable secular country before the sowing of the "Arab Spring""
And he cynically turned it into a holy civil war to defeat the people who were demanding human rights and an end to despotism
Your ongoing contempt for those demands and your siding with yet another mass-murderer is typical of your extreme hatred of people who won't genuflect to authority
Jim Carroll
Can't clickie this but it paints a picture of life under Assad
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syrian-defectors-reveal-horrors-of-life-under-bashar-al-assads-regime-in-reminder-for-west-to-not-10458185.html