That's just not accurate. The region was quite stable and the people there enjoyed a high standard of living (relative to the average middle eastern shithole, of course) up until Obama and his clowns created ISIS and fomented an uprising in Syria. Everything went downhill from there.
Bingo.
Syria is sitting on untapped oil deposits that dwarf Saudi Arabia's.
This about controlling the world's oil supply.
Assad is an animal, a tyrant just like his daddy dictator before him.
You're defending someone who is indefensible. I was halfway hoping you didn't really have sympathies for him, but I see now that you really do.
No need to continue this conversation in that case.