OK, and when Assad is gone, what's the alternative? Would Syria be so much better off run by the Muslim Brotherhood or the Al Nusra front?
Assad murders his political enemies. These guys murder people for not being Muslim, or even for being the wrong kind of Muslim. Only idiots like Lindsey Graham and Nimrata Randhawa Haley think of them as "moderates."
Assad has fed the radicalism, everyone knows that. To stifle real demonstrations for freedom. It’s not 2 choices, Muslim radicals or Muslim radicals, with Assad’s allies being Iran and Hezbollah.