So, the solution is for the 12% Alawite clan to kill the 60% plus Sunni population? Not that those surrounding nations will stand for that.
Considering the stellar job Assad and his father did in decimating the Muslim Brotherhood terrorists and the new false front Muslim Brotherhood "political" organization before Obama and the Socialist DemoRats allied with them using "Arab Spring" insurrections to create proto Caliphate States, ...I'll go with the kill 60% option.