So, who replaces Assad?
The ‘opposition’, the ‘rebels’ in Syria are al Qaeda terrorists, they are as Peter Hitchens puts it “Osama Bin Laden admirers”, the same movement that killed so mahy Americans on 9/11.
If we follow the pattern in past situations like Libya the al Qaeda terrorists will be allowed to take power and if there are ‘moderates’ out there like the handful that exist in Libya they may control a patch of downtown Damascus, but they will not be able to govern the country in any meaningful way.