The Western media has taken upon itself to demonize the Assad regime.
In 1971, Bashar's father became President,apart from
a few attacks on Israel.The Assad family has presided over a peace haven in the Middle East,unlike most Middle Eastern counties.
Syrian Christians enjoyed freedom to practise their religion.
In 2011,a civil war broke out when radicalised Islamists started to attack the Syrian army.
Seeing his people murdered by terrorists. Assad was forced to take military action.No western power helped him fight the terrorists as they were preoccupied with other Muslim countries.
Now that Russia has taken upon itself to help Assad.Western leaders thinking the Cold War still exists have asked that assad leave.
The result would mean a blood bath for the Syrian Christians,and any liberal Muslims left in the country.

"In 2011,a civil war broke out when radicalised Islamists started to attack the Syrian army.
Seeing his people murdered by terrorists. Assad was forced to take military action"
You must have evidence for that. Otherwise you wouldn't post it.

Abbott was right. Baddies against baddies. it normally takes the regressive a lot longer to learn.

Tony Abbott actually said "the bad guys fighting the even worse guys". That is the best summation of the whole rotten mess. Australia should stay out of these conflicts as they always end badly.
The only saving grace is the experience given to our armed forces making them so good any enemy would baulk at taking them on.

2011."Arab Spring" in Syria.
2013. ISIS appears in Syria and fights Moderates. Goodies are becoming bad.
2015. All bad but Assad is a bit better.
Abbott's kindergarten talk takes hold on good guys with good Anzac bombs.

nnn,

Abbott had the situation in hand while the left whingers were trying to pretend that ISIS was just misunderstood.

However the topic is about the start of the war by "radicalised Islamists". Implying that 1) rebels bad 2) Assad good.
This is revising history to reverse the facts. The "left whingers" tag is a smart pun , for the first 14 times but can't be used to change the past record of the west trying to back the rebels.
Russia is now bombing where in 2011 it demanded no interference. Russia probably caused ISIS to have a free run. Now the west is pushed into following the Assad camp - but strangely enough Russia is still not bombing ISIS.
Abbott controlled ISIS ? yeah ..

Nicknamenick.
Why do you keep mentioning Abbott.
Assad is not Abbott and Abbott is not Assad.
Turnball should support Assad not militarily but diplomatically.
This would bring Australia in line with our allies in Syria,France Britain and Russia.

Abbott tried to use simple language so that even the greens could understand. Unfortunately they still didn't get it.

Brock
I mentioned Abbott once as a final comment as runner, Bowyer and Shadow Minister did.
Please explain. What 'radicalised Islamists' in 2011 when kids were killed?

The Arab spring has realized a western winter..........

The US officially caved in a week or so back, but that don't mean they wont still try something underhanded.

Recent Paul Craig Roberts videos explain it.

http://youtu.be/sidiT5Wp9bI
http://youtu.be/M2BJSebhFEM
http://youtu.be/BQJys8Yyjt8

Kerry and Nuland in Moscow: Has the U.S. Ended Its Opposition to Democracy in Syria?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/kerry-and-nuland-in-moscow-has-the-u-s-ended-its-opposition-to-democracy-in-syria/5496127

The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has far more intellect, courage, integrity and humanity than any one of the world leaders opposed to him - Barack Obama, John Kerry, David Cameron, Francois Hollande, Angela Merkel, Malcolm Turnbull, Bill Shorten, Julie Bishop, ... . This has been shown where he has been interviewed at length on a number of occasions in recent years by critical, and even hostile, newsmedia. An example is the 52 minute interview by CBS's 60 Minutes on http://www.globalresearch.ca/president-al-assads-interview-with-cbs-news (10/9/13 - includes transcript, embedded video no longer available). If Turnbull, Bishop or Shorten ever had to face such scrutiny before such a large audience, they would all be seen for what they really are and never be voted back into office again.

He was voted President by an overwhelming majority of Syrians on 4 June 2014. That election was observed by monitors from all over the world. On 19 June 2014, five of those observers gave their testimony before a press conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. See http://www.globalresearch.ca/syrias-press-conference-the-united-nations-doesnt-want-you-to-see (includes embedded video). Any one of the mainstream media journalists, who claim that Bashar al-Assad is a hated tyrant, could have attended and tell the world why those observers were wrong, but, curiously, not one was present, or, if they were, they were very quiet.

I said from the beginning that the West needed to realise that
Putin was reading the situation in Syria much more accurately
Than the Western media.

Why wouldn't he,he lives in the area, knows the long term history and tribal allegiances
Better then the West.

America got it wrong in the 1970s, when they sided with the militants in
Afghanistan with whom Osama Bin Laden was fighting at the time.

If they'd sided with the European Russians, there may have been
No Twin Towers, or Al Quaeda or Taliban.

The West needs to look at which side is more likely to support Europeans
In an all out world war.

It won't be militant types in Afganistan, it is more likely to be the European Russians.

Understand that bloodline are the ones that will truly have your back in an attempted
Move to wipe out European and Western people on a global scale.

Russia must fight with Europe in an all out world war, because Russia's survival
Also depends on defeating Arab terrorists. Chechnya already having posed
a threat on Russian home soil. Now the more European tribe around Assad is also threatened by,
Militant Muslum Syrian Rebels.

The Muslims fight to protect their tribal lands and people, Europe needs to do the same.