Thanks markomalley. There was resistance to sending troops, which would have been the only way to protect the Christian enclaves. Assad didn't bother, and he started the slaughter. Furthermore, unlike the jihadists, he doesn't crow about how many people he slaughters, and he's been responsible for almost all the deaths in Syria over the past four years.
“”Assad didn’t bother, and he started the slaughter.””
I thought he didn’t have a problem with Christians. Where do you get this from?