If Assad is ousted and Syria is 'democratized' the result will be the same as in Iraq or Libya, or - going back further - the Habsburg Empire, the European colonial empires, etc. As was recently discussed in another
thread, multi-sectarian democracies are problematic. Most take this as an indictment of multi-sectarian states, but it
should be taken as an indictment of democratic states. In the case of Syria in particular, the whole problem originated in foreign interference, but, nonetheless, if there had been a genuine democratic revolution in Syria, of domestic origins, we'd be seeing a similar carving up along ethnic/religious lines. In other words, there's more to consider here than just "foreign intervention = bad."
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