I hope assad wins, he’s been in power for years and we have had no trouble with syria
That statement might be a little overreaching. Syria has been harboring terrorists for many years and taking part in many nefarious actions in the Middle East.
“I hope assad wins, he’s been in power for years and we have had no trouble with syria”
Ha. Yeah, that’s right...he just acts innocent as he aids & abets hezbollah and the Iranian regime. No problem there as far as you’re concerned.
I also hope Assad wins, though we have had trouble with his Baathist government (and even more with his father's regime before him). But that trouble was manageable because the Assads are rational, and their regimes are secular and non-suicidal.
Like the secular fascist Egyptian government of Mubarak, Assad's Syria has officially been belligerent toward Israel. But as rational players, both regimes reached cooperative arrangements with Jerusalem that avoided disastrous wars - because they wanted to survive. While not friendly, the relationships were manageable. Does anyone believe that Islamist alternatives would lead to anything but total war? I think not.
Assad = Bad
Rebels = Catastrophic
Except for Syria supporting the “insurgents” in Iraq who killed our GIs. I would call that a bit of trouble.