well for a start that wasnt Assad the current... so a bit irrelevent?
I am sorry but you have got all wrong, there was never any peace in the country before 2011, how could you say that when there was vast number of people imprisoned simply because of their political view...and I mean not just a one off but on a continuous level you might say oh how did that happen we never heard of it..true you didn't because media coverage was banned, the only channel that was broadcast back in the day was the syrian regime news channel people were forced to watch it and were cut from the outside world.
You seem to pin every mess on "Islamists" even if you claim it was they sparked it or whatever, does that give him the right to kill 30,000 people just like that? and do you expect there sons and daughters to leave it at that? They never did...but they were too oppressed to do anything about it.
Just to correct you, if assad was winning why the hell resort to chemical weapons? He is clearly ****ting himself, he has used MIGs, Phosphorus bombs all sorts of weapons and they still not giving up, does that make you wonder why? He kills their children, they come out, he kills their fathers they keep coming out, he destroys their houses they sleep in the streets and keep their head help high up, he gasses their children and they continue...does it not make you wonder for a second there is something more to this?
Something other than the regular "oh they are terrorist, they are blah blah blah they want blah blah"?
Its insane, if it was that simple, trust me bashar would have won long ago, people would have just went back to their houses went back to work but it IS NOT!
If it was a revolution of terrorist, why is he bombing children? or do they also belong to the same ideology and maybe when they grow up they will be terrorists? so we kill them now? why bomb hospitals, when its banned by international law? The media sticks the word "terrorists" and the world is on it like flies on ****!
Can you tell me how bashar is not an idiot? everything so far proves otherwise.
Hafez is the father of Bashar
Thus I believe its relevant