It is interesting how people here are somehow defending Al-Asad... Or are you guys just saying that Radical Islamists are worse, but Al Asad was equally bad? Or are you conveniently ignoring that when people when to search for political prisoners they found just the piles of corpses that Al Asad had been producing along the years?
Again, there is no solution to this region anytime soon. There is no interest in peace from Israel, Iran, the Kurds, the US nor Turkiya anytime soon. They have other priorities it seems.
Seems like the Syrians are some cruel motherfuckers. I liked Bashar Al-Asad because he was a dorkey geek who everyone underestimated and didn't want to be prez, but then managed to hold things together in spite of bad odds. Until he didn't. But the dude has to take credit for the stuff that went on under his watch. They used to do torture jobs for us (the U.S.) back in the early days of the so-called GWOT because they were good at it. All the way into the early days of the long-running color revolution in fact!
One thing that Al-Asad family has a reputation for that I do appreciate is honesty. Their words and promises were solid, and I prefer 'cruel+honest' people to 'cruel+liar' ones which characterize most of the Talmudic-influenced creepers running most of the world these days. Erdogan is a classic.