The Syrian War Is Not Completely a Sunni-Shia Conflict

Commenter 1: Bashar al-Assad won the last presidential election in Syria. Anyone who went into Syria to check found Assad hugely popular. Of course the vicious, murderous foreign enemies call every election outcome they don’t like a “sham”, but who cares?

The only democracy in the Middle East? Syria!

Commenter 2: If you went only to DC and deep Blue areas, I am sure you would find that Biden is popular as well. So it is when you go to Damascus and to the old Ugaritic coast (majority Alawite) north of Lebanon, you find huge support for Assad.

You might hear something different if you try, oh, Aleppo, Hama, or Idlib. But if you went on a normal Syrian visa, you didn’t try those cities, did you?

This is not correct. The army is 70% Sunni and is behind the state. The Sunnis have always been the businessmen in Syria. They have a lot of power and money that way, and no one is going to take it away from. Bashar’s wife Alma is a Sunni.

Alawites are only 12% of the population. They can’t run the c…