Jim.....if Mr Cameron or Mr Milliband were to be confronted by an armed socialist uprising in our own perfectly democratic country, do you really not think that the army would be sent in to crush it pretty damn quick?

Mr Assad is attempting to rule a nation of religious factions pumped up by zealots and agencies of foreign powers.....how do you expect him to react?

You and all "liberals" are living in a fairyland if you really believe what you espouse.
Sooner or later, we in the West are going to have to deal with things as they really are, not as we imagine them to be.