When Lee met Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse, he made it clear that if Confederates were going to be executed as traitors then they might as well fade into the mountains and fight a guerilla war for decades.
Grant was no fool. He said if you stop fighting now, the killing ends. Period. And so it did (for the most part).
Assad today in Syria has no such easy out. If the Alawites stop fighting, they’ll all be executed...every last man, woman, and child...by ISIS.
Yep. The problem is that 1/3 of Alawite Men of fighting age are already dead.