Yeah it would be soooo much better with the crazed Sunni madrassah trained exporters of terror taking over the reins.
Assads family has left the Christians alone, something especially that the Iranian shiites have not done—anywhere.
So this is a islamic sect civil war with Christians the useful tool targets. Arm the Christians obamaumao— oh no— you couldn’t because your “muslim faith” (your words) won’t allow that.
But, uh, Petraeus would have... hence girlfriend exposure and removal by .... Leon Panetta clintoon pimp replaced by Sarge Hagel (rino rubber stamp moron). This is all engineered by profiteering... NOT national security.
Alawites aren't really Shiites, although Hafez Assad (Assad's dad) did pay get some big name Shiite mullah to say they were. Alawites say there is no god but Ali. They believe in reincarnation. Their saints include Plato, Aristotle and the Virgin Mary. All of these are major breaches of Islamic doctrine. If a "Christian" sect named Buddha as a saint, subscribed to reincarnation and suggested that God is really John the Baptist, can that sect really be considered Christian? Frankly, the main reason for Assad's relationship with Iran has to do with needing money to stay afloat. Alawism seems more like a New Age philosophy than a religion.