Assad has killed not tens but a hundred thousand or more Syrians ( by even low estimates). The number killed by IS is a mere fraction.
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I think it’s also fair to say that Assad wanted the fight to include ISIS and al Qaeda so he could create the moral dilemma and binary choice - it’s my socialist, secular, hereditary dictatorship or it’s Islamic extremists. Most of the time Assad and Putin have spent their greatest efforts against those not aligned with ISIS or al Qaeda. Putin fans believe that everyone against Assad must be ISIS, which is weird considering the Kurds have no links to al Qaeda and ISIS.