Not everyone rebelling against Assad is a terrorist or extremist. Huge numbers of them are average citizens and he is using chemical weapons on them. I think your sentiment is vile. I have a co-worker with family in Syria who he can’t contact.
The “average” muslim is one Friday night exhortation away from setting off a bomb at a sporting event to kill Americans. Tell your co-worker is he’s so concerned about his family to get his muzzie ass on a plane back there.
The reason they do that is that's what they do.
Whoever the groups are who don't hate Christians really need to stand up and tell us.
Assad's Alawites are traditionally considered protectors of Christians mostly because they generally aren't outright hostile to them.
This is a situation the Alawites didn't create.
Because of that your thoughts that I ought to kowtow to Juan McCain and his rampaging Sunni rebels is simply vile. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Sadly, those not involved are often hurt the worst. Assad is a barbarian, but Alawites as a whole are hardly the worst people in the ME. They are considered infidels by most of the Sunni muslims fighting the regime. The Nusra front are backed, or made up by, Al Quaeda militants.