[katana]

The Russians and the Soviets before them have been the major backers of the Assad regime(s) in Syria for decades and they are not going to sit by while another of their "clients", this one more strategically important than Libya, is taken over by radical Islamists.

Unlike us, they actually do have a dog in this fight. We would be fools to take either side but certainly not the one that will kill every Syrian Christian they can find and will use every weapon that falls in their laps from Assad's stockpiles, regardless of the consequences, against Israel.

[Sequoyah101]

And so the point is that the rebels are more likely to kill the Christians than the Assad loyal forces?

Assad is B’aath are they not? I suppose they are more likely to live in some form of acceptance of the Christians than the radical islamist rebel faction.

As stated before, there is no winning is there? No right or wrong possible just losing less than another option.