What Assad’s air force has done to constituents will never be forgiven by those whose cooperation and loyalty the state must have; on the other side, General Idris remains in business and, it appears, is being favored in the distribution of European arms, probably in concert with official Saudi cooperation, but there are rogue forces, as much circumstances suggest, in the financing of the civil war, and they will have to be blocked and neutralized for a modern society to coalesce between autocratic personalities and then expand and squeeze them out. Syria — and Syrians — have a long way to go.

Putin has chosen the disingenuous position of sustaining a Putin-Assad-Khamenei arc at terrific expense to the humanity in the theater, and, so far, it appears he’s not going to budge from the program. I now call the three named the “three amigos of dictatorship”.

In politics as in life, anything seems possible; however, tendency says the dictator will go, and so will the Islamist fronts, both so aligned against the grain of humanity and nature.  Nonetheless, the inherently authoritarian on both sides of the battle — different talk; same walk — remain dominant in the theater and Syrians either neutral to both or supporting neither die and suffer at the hands of both.

At this point, it bears repeating: Syrians — a Syrian People, a community with the legacy of many histories on the land — have no army representing their interests.

Assad’s army, which has been dropping barrel bombs on apartment buildings, is not the army of the people; the other army, which, among other atrocities, appears to have shoved bakers into their own ovens is not the army of the people either; and, to a certain extant, the power bearing against Syria-Iran-Hezbollah-Shiite Islam may not be Syria’s preferred army either, but in the person of General Idris, it would appear, it would be at least Syrian and non-authoritarian in its attitude toward Syrian citizens.

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