Syria rebels overrun Aleppo military base

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10. I hate to say it, but there seem to have been only a few on this board who saw this coming.

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The civil war in Syria is a factional religious struggle that goes back 13 centuries between the Sunni majority and the Shi-ia. The Syrian Alawite minority regime has nowhere to go and has every reason to keep fighting because they know that if and when the Syrian Army collapses, there will be a genocidal ethnic cleansing of Damascus and other cities.

This conflict is regional, will spread (likely to Lebanon, and from there to Iran), and has enormous further blowback potential for the US and other outside powers that have been arming the Sunni militias.

Mess isn't the word for it. Like Iraq, catastrophe by other means.