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8. "the torturer and killer Assad is heralded as a guarantee of stability ..." Well said.

But whatever happens there, it's legal. Because everybody opposing Assad is automatically a terrorist. And Assad will never be held accountable for anything.

Syria, as a nation, is dead.

Assad will rule over a garrison, not a country.

Since day 1 of the uprising against him, Assad has been saying that anyone who opposes him is a terrorist. It was patently untrue at the time but his tactics in employing his military has made his statement more and more true as the civil war has dragged on and destroyed his country.

But, hey, he is still 'in power'. With Russian and Iranian backing, I don't think he is going anywhere. What is left of Syria for him to 'rule' is another question. At least he will protect the Russian naval base in the country and a strip of land between Damascus and Tartus.