A question to all the posters of this thread:
Please enlighten me on an issue here. Some of you say that rebels entered Syria and started the fightings and the massacres, while in my own knowledge, Syria was a police like state (not meant in a negative way, but meaning , having almost total control on its land and frontiers through police intelligence.), so the only way I see is that Syria did open up its policies, and that have created an opportunity for infiltrating it.
The least to say is that, there must be a very bitter experience for anyone wanting to experience with democracy by changing its regime's doctrine to new world tendencies of global trade and the likes.
There is also the question of Oil and natural Gaz reserves found inside Syria and off its shores.
Another, and this time a strategic question concerning the layouts of oil and gaz pipelines through Syria and the conflict it creates with other route preferences by its opponents.
Religious wise, I always thought that Syria was a Sunni country with free Shia and other minorities, like in almost any other Sunni Muslim country, be it in the Arabic or the Islamic world.
So, from where this Shia vs Sunni. or Sunni vs Takferi, Al Nusra,,,ect (first time I've heard of these, was in Syria's conflict, the same as was Al Qaeda, we first heard of it during the 9/11 attacks and when the US invaded Afghanistan) stems from?