Men who drink blood: inside the brutal world of Assad's death squads

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13. You're confusing "allies" with enemies of enemies.

Assad is an idiot who has been ineffective at dealing with the opposition and the insurgency, and is likely to be overthrown. I'm beginning to think a coup is possible. That wouldn't bother me, particularly if his successor engaged in some sort of UN-brokered negotiated settlement with the other parties in the country.

But, escalation of the foreign intervention is leading the bloodiest possible outcome of a collapse of the country into ethnic cleansing and genocide carried out by bands of Sunni foreign terrorists fighting Shi'ia militias. No thank you. We've seen that in Bosnia and Kosovo, which seems to be the model for this sort of Saudi paramilitary intervention.