Brother I can neither support those "rebels" fighting Assad. Assad is still seen as a viable leader by the majority of Syrians irrespective of their religious ties. He is formally a practicing eye surgeon in London, who is truly humble and moderate leader who doesn't have a sectarian agenda towards his people a moderate and secular leader.
Assad could have avoided all this mess in the first place if he had implemented meaningful reforms at an opportune time. I had praise him if he stepped down and or changed his country regime to a parliamentary electoral "democratic" one. I want to finally see one Arab leader with enough dignity, wisdom and cleverness to do that. No doubt he and his father have committed some atrocities in the past. The fact that stands is that he's fighting for this small fragile country that has been tired and exhausted from these extremist retards.
Just because of his close ties with Russia and Iran and support for Hezbollah and Hamas, he has become scapegoat and vilified by countries like the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and many other countries. He is a man against Western and Zionist aggression.
Those Rebels were extremists from the beginning, where the West and its allies like Saudi Arabia have long funded these groups and now we have ISIS as a result. The ones that support the opposition are ultra-conservative Muslims that want Syria governed by an extremist regime.
Just remember what happened in Afghanistan decades ago, the US and its allies funded extremists groups like the Taliban and Al-Qaeda who were fighting the Soviets, later on those same groups turned into America's enemies and 9/11 happened, they realised their mistake. Same thing happened when the US and its allies supported and funded Saddam in Iraq's unjustified invasion of Iran, later on Iraq turned on America's back and so we had the Gulf War and later 2003 invasion of Iraq. The US and the West is making the same mistake of supporting these fringe extremists groups.
Its better if the world had left Assad in power, instead of doing a mistake by supporting these rebels. Its only the beginning, the US and its allies are air bombing those very same rebels they funded and supported.
If the world really cared about human rights and freedom, they would been long supporting the Bahraini people to overthrow their authoritarian monarchy. Instead business and military ties matter more. Bahraini people were left in the dark.
