The Assad regime has been thoroughly detestable; however, the coming Islamic supremacist regime will be even worse for the nation's Christians, as has been abundantly established by repeated rebel actions against them, and will ultimately bode even worse for the U.S., Europe and Israel than the Assads.
"Syrian General: We're Protecting Europe from Islamists," from AFP, September 6 (thanks to Block Ness):
A Syrian general in charge of operations in west Aleppo has told AFP that Europeans are exhibiting "blindness" in supporting the rebels against President Bashar Assad's regime. Assad's forces are "the last dam that is holding back the flood of Islamists in Europe," he said....
The general, a member of the army's elite Republican Guard, is running the regime's operations in some of the most brutal battles in the city.
"We must take the terrorist-held areas, while minimizing the destruction to the city and keep the civilian population on our side," said the 53-year-old, using the regime's standard term for the rebels....