i agree with most of this, but i don't think assad did anything that we have not done ourselves, or paid others to do for us. in any case, if the UK and US had not armed terrorists in syria (along with turkey, saudi arabia and other gulf nations) since 2011 or before, i don't believe there would have been widespread civil war. the early actions of the obama administration kept the conflict going and growing until ISIS, al Nusra Front, Daesh and others were able to gain footholds is Syria.