Syrian rebels unify, create new 30-member council

[sabrina 1]

8. Probably he will leave or be murdered as happened with Gadaffi.

I don't believe he can hang on with so much opposition from the outside. This whole effort appears to be 'regime change'. Why I do not know. He does seem to have a lot of support within in Syria and if there were no outside influences, then I would say he would probably survive.

I do not like Assad, don't get me wrong, and it would be wonderful if he was replaced with a much more democratic government. But I don't see that happening. I see him being replaced by some Western friendly entity as was Libya's government. With so many different factions in Syria, that won't satisfy everyone either, it will probably have the opposite effect.

Most likely the unrest that continues in Libya and probably will for a very time, will continue in Syria also.

If western intervention was the solution for all these countries, we would have seen more than 60 years of peace and democracy in the region. So I'm not hopeful for the outcome, regardless of what it is. For the ordinary Syrians, it is just plain tragic, as it was for Libyans and Iraqis.