Originally Posted by
Blaze86420
Well no **** sherlock, it's a civil war with two sides; the chances of having society's trash spread itself out is pretty damn high.
You'd think with so much of the country under rebel control we'd start seeing some of that impending apocalypse you, Odenat, and Magpie keep promising us, yet the most we've ever seen so far coming from the ENTIRE opposition are summary executions of Shabihah members, and the occasional intelligence officer or Syrian soldier, with the majority being committed by Al Nusrah. And yeah, keep telling yourself that your BS is fact, it's one way of avoiding having to actually provide any substance. Evidence of sectarianism? An Alawite shrine or two being vandalized. Meanwhile, regime forces conduct massacre after massacre, level entire cities with indiscriminate bombing, but they're the saner choice because Assad and his crew drink wine and play blackjack or what ever the hell you were going on about earlier.
As for your dumbass question, the rebels weren't the ones who escalated the situation. They weren't the ones who opened fire. So the question you should be asking is whether the regime maintaining power was worth all the bloodshed, since you know, THEY'RE THE ONES RESPONSIBLE FOR MOST OF IT. What exactly do imagine happening if the rebels would just drop their weapons tomorrow? What's this situation that you think is salvageable? Are you not aware of the amount of damage the government has been responsible for? And prior to the rebellion, the decades of corruption, social injustice, and repression? Or do you blind yourself to Syrian history just like the present? You want an answer to your question? Yeah, it is worth it. Would have been great if he abdicated peacefully, actually you know what, forget abdication, it would have been good enough if he just offered promise of reform without massacring protesters, even if it wasn't genuine. But since that obviously wasn't the case, this regime does deserve the boot even if it costs this many lives, and don't you dare try to spin it as if this is somehow the rebellion's doing.