Syria Conflict

WoW these pic are deeply disturbing...Although I agree Arab ruler's are very reluctant to loosen their grip on power, I see the west in a soup of hypocrisy. I mean Saudi, and Bahrain are a few countries with astonishing human right violations and don't believe in democratic ideology, so why aren't there rebels fighting there as well? I see the Syrian conflict through a different lens. You have you understand that most of these "freedom" fighters are not even Syrians...most of them have foreign nationalities and are paid roughly $150USD a week against the fight of Assad and pro-government forces. The sad thing about human race is our history keeps repeating ourselves. We need to look back just prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran where Mohammad Mosaddegh was democratically elected by the Iranian nation...however a coup deta was orchestrated effectively removing him from power, and coincidentally the Shah (western back) was permanently installed as a leader who didn't not believe in an ayota of democracy.

Within the middle east there are only two major military forces: Turkey and Iran. Iran openly exposes Western Hypocrisy and the turmoil caused by the "Democratic Coalition Forces". Regardless of how one may perceive the Iranian nation, credit is owed to them. Through sanctions Iran has grown into a powerful nation with an equally vibrant economy and has successfully developed their own "military industrial complex". So the real question asked by the West is how to weaken Iran? The simple answer, destroy their economy and their allies. I agree when Assad says there is no civil war, because the definition of a civil war "is a war between organized groups within the same nation state or republic". What is happening in Syria is outside intervention in an effort to topple the Assad regime. The onus lies on the people to change their country/ government from a grass roots approach. We see a lot of outside interference in Afghanistan and Iraq which...