The sad truth about most of ME is that unless you hold it with iron fist you get Syria or Libya. Maybe in 100 years we can re-visit the issue. 

Idealistic views and reality don't match. It is either Assad or "the oppressed". I pick - as any sane person should - Assad. At least he doesn't want me dead or converted & minds his own business. "the oppressed" don't have execution issues with their own AND they somehow feel they can kill others outside of their own people.