The Christians in Syria have been protected by the Assad regime. it's a deal with the devil, because the OTHER devil would kill them immediately.
Look at what happened in Iraq -- 2 million Christians before 2003, quarter a million and dropping now.
Assad is better than the alternative for Israel and the US as well -- except for one "mirage-like" alternative -- a separate Christian state in the south of Syria and south of Lebanon. Bar that, it's better to have the evil Assad than the Moslem Brotherhood. Have we learnt nothing from Egypt?
Of course there are. "kronos77" (any relation?) is an admitted one.