This is a conflict between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian-backed Alawite-dominated Ba’athist regime. There are no good guys. And I refuse to countinance the ongoing alliance of neoconservatives and leftist and Al Qaeda as seen in Libya.
I refuse to countenance the ongoing alliance with the Assad dynasty. Since as you said there are no good guys, the longer the civil war goes on in Syria, the better off everyone else is.
Iran can’t lose Syria without losing its chance in Iraq, so I suspect that Iraq will go up like a barrel of black powder any day now.