text: Assad is the only one in the region looking out for the Christian minority. Syria was an oasis for the Christian Assyrian populace that have been their since their people first heard of the gospels, this terrible civil war is the first time they have been dislodged.
  
  Assad is a horrible man, but he is the only one that has looked out for the eastern Christians, not the Islamist or secular rebels, and most shamefully not even western Christendom. 
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarianism_and_minorities_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War#Attacks_on_Christians_and_churches
  
  Better the devil you know, I suppose.