BTW, no one has mentioned the Kurds of NE Syria whom hate the Assad’s.
They are being very quiet. Rumor has it that the Kurds are waiting for the Assad’s to go and when the chaos and ethnic infighting is the worst, they plan to break away and form their own republic.
Syrian Kurds were only granted Syrian citizenship last April and do not consider themselves or their land to be Syrian.
It’ll be a wild-west-style shootout when they do. Kurds have been participating in the committees and so forth discussing post-Assad Syria, but discussion doesn’t really work when the shells are coming in.
Kurdistan certainly should be an independent state, made up of Kurdish areas in four countries (Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran).