Damascus today = Berlin January, 1945.
If Assad falls, the question will be WHO gets control of his WMD’s (chem and bio) and missiles. If ISIS, ISIL or Hezbollah get access to them, they will not hesitate in firing them onto Tel Aviv or Hafia, the major Israeli cities north of Jerusalem. Israel will retalitate immediately with nukes directed at Damascus. This battle would be very short lived and last less than a day. The causualties if death, injuried and sick from WMD’s will be very high on both sides. I think that this is the next conflict in the ME and could happen any time now. IMO, there will be little or no warning.
So at long last bam and his ilk will get their wish and take out Assad soon.
maye damascus gets hit with a nuke from iran. interesting twist.