Who are the rebels? Are they Islamists? Are they allied with ISIS and Al Qaeda? Assad is bad, what is the alternative other than being worse? There are no good outcomes in Syria, just less bad ones. Syria, Iraq, Yemen are engaged in a multi-state sectarian war where there is no good and bad, just look at Turkey's Islamist President over the last 24 months - ISIS operates with impunity in Turkey but you wouldn't know it from ready the Globe, go figure.