Western countries discuss further support for Syrian rebels

[leftynyc]

1. Extremely complicated situation

I recently was on vacation and met a Syrian Christian woman (who now lives in L.A.) whose family in Syria has fled to Beirut. According to her, Assad is indeed a dictator but one who protected the minorities in Syria, women are now free to wear what they want and get educated but her fear is the Muslim Brotherhood (or whatever the equivalent is in Syria) will gain power and women and minorities will suffer greatly. I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable helping to place fundamentalists in power there (or anywhere) when the result will be women suffering and going backwards to much less freedom. Very complicated.