Observations on Syrian Quagmire

1- Cant brush off assad's tyranny under the carpet just because he defeated isis with the help of Iranian militias and Russian air power. 

2- No sir, history will remember what transpired beforehand as Arab spring was on its peak.

3- Bashar ul assad brutally clamped down on peaceful protesters who were demanding him and his inefficient government to step down. 

4- Assad should have listened to the opposition's voices by working out a win-win formula but he never did. He was simply not interested to relinquish power.

5- Assad quelled the protests with violence which made the people forced to take up arms.

6- ISIS took advantage of the vacuum created by lack of the writ.

7- The US and western powers along with KSA and Qatar exacerbated the conflict by encouraging the opposition with fianances and ammunition but never really boosted their position with military involvement on crucial junctures.

8- Russia came to rescue its secure strategically vital naval base at Latakia which guaranteed control of important waterways. Hence it enhanced the Geo strategic calculus in favor of Kremlin.

9- The only ones to bear the brunt were poor Syrian people - women, children, aged and young alike. They were caught between devil and the deep sea.

10- These horrific images surfacing from Syrian war theater reaffirms the notion that war is a monster and it destroys the societies from inside out and scars its incoming generations for decades.Bashar Al Assad's father, Hafez Al Assad also usurped power in a coup. Nobody is entitled to remain in power perpetually. But in monarchies and dictatorships across Middle East, it is a norm which is absurd. If people are dying and their lives, dignity and property is not safe from every corner, then there is a serious problem.