Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec View Post
The Baath parties of Syria and Iraq didn't get along very well, you know...
The Ba'ath party has socialist revolutionary roots. If you can point to a single such group who hasn't fractured I will lick your boots clean.

The USSR split with China. Was there a terribly big difference between the internal politics in the two countries? Nope. Neither is there much of a difference between Assad and Saddam. Saddam adopted an "Iraq first"-policy which lead to aggressive foreign relations, but unless you're claiming support based on foreign policy(which rvg does not) that does not matter one bit.

Quote Originally Posted by rvg View Post
Right, let's throw the minorities under the bus, after all it's not you who will be suffering under the islamist yoke. Great idea.
....And with that you just invalidated your own position, since it's certainly not you(and not your "group" either) who suffers under Assad's yoke.