Roads To Peace: If or how will peace come to Syria?

A lot of threads about Syria here on TSR but few address possible solutions to the conflict. How does TSR see the situation panning out?

Assad is slaughtering the rebels at a rate exceeding ~50,000 per year, he will be victorious almost entirely due to the fact that the west allowed Russia and Iran a strategic victory and our own domestic population was too blind and fanciful to see the injustice of allowing a genocidal tyrant to remain in power based on some ridiculous notion that they'd all agree to a peace deal (tantamount to the rebels surrendering).

Foreign policy is one of the only areas i say this but dam Russia and dam the pacifist left in this country, there's only one way to deal with a tyrant and that's to bomb him into submission.

I would agree that Assad at the moment has the upper hand due to Russian, Iranian and general support from the reminants of the non-aligned movement, but I disagree with your blaming of the 'pacifist left'. The left in this country was as divided as the right when assessing the possibility of bombing Syria.

Personally I believe that now, intervention will only intensify the bloodletting. We should have intervened at the beginning like we did in Lybia, enabling a swift end to Assad and preventing the conflict developing into the monster it is today.

Can I just ask, why do you blame the left for non-intervention? Its not as if the conservatives were sold on the idea?

In parliament i can't really blame Labour because parliament is about scoring the political goal (though there not that left anyway) but certainly among the wider electorate most commentators and polls seem to be against the idea largely because of a pacifist belief that negotiations are the answer (the only answer they allow is one in which Assad is not on trial for crimes against humanity).

While i agree with you i don't believe its too late even now so long as we don't have a ground invasion. I'd have NATO launch air support for the rebels and have Turkey and Israel capture the Dar'a and Al Hasakha provinces primarily for use as refugee zones. From there like Libya i'd support the rebels with intelligence and air support.

That is a very valid option. The creation of safe and no fly zones over border areas would relieve the situation for civilians. However, Israel entering the equation would certainly escalate the conflict into a wider middle eastern war, not only jeopardizing the tense peace between the two nations, but also the continuing efforts to bring Iran to heel. As I mentioned before in this thread, there is the idea to negotiate an end to the war by allowing Assad to receive diplomatic immunity in Russia. While this will mean he is unable to be prosecuted for his crimes, it could also bring about an end to the war? do you not think this is an acceptable sacrifice?

There is no such thing as peace. It is a theory, it will never be a reality.

Assad winning the civil war is the lesser evil of the two outcomes in my opinion. If he regains power Syria will have a much greater chance of becoming a stable country again, as opposed to the rebels overthrowing him.