America must support Al'Qaida forces in Syria... while hounding them in Afghanistan.
These waffles do realize that the Assad dynasty has, for 40 years, protected the jewish and christian minoritys in Syria from persecution and oppression.
There are currently more arab jews in the Syrian military than there are all other arab states militarys combined.
Arab jews and christians can own land in Syria. They can practice skilled trades. They can also hold government positions.
Syria is a secular and progressive state, where women can legaly vote, hold a job, attend school, and divorce their husbands... and where child marriage is illegal.
McCain would impose Wahabi fundamentalism on Syria, making it illegal for Syrian jews and christians to hold citizenship in their own country. He would see Syrian women reduced to property. He would turn Syria into another Iraq... Or another Palestine.
Great yeah Assad loves to kill everyone equally. Seriously though we can argue if it will make it worse or better in some ways but don't go defending Assad.
with that said I'm thinking the best way of handling this is to arm them and maybe have some foreign oversight similar to lybia
No, He just crushes revolts like any other head of state. There is no evidence to suggest that Assad loves, or even likes, to kill everyone, or anyone.
If a catholic splinter group attempted to overthrow the british government, you can bet the queen would send in the highlanders to crush anyone who looked like they were part of the revolt.
If a white supremacist group attempted to overthrow the American government, O'Bama would send in his scariest troops to crush the revolt.
Assad's father was our ally against Iraq the first time, and the son is no worse than the father... indeed most of his regime has been a display of liberalization from the old paranoid habbits of his father.
Unfortunately he is still a brown leader ruling brown people who dont bow to a white master. And they arent living in grass shacks. This contradicts the most sacred doctrine of the democracy... that only a white government can build or maintain a modern civilization.