Syria Gets Worse

If you thought that things could not possibly get worse regarding Syria, think again. The United Nations human rights investigators (led by Brazilian Paulo Pinheiro) have issued a report confirming that Hezbollah terrorists from Lebanon and Shiite soldiers from Iraq are now in Syria fighting on the side of the Assad regime. In other words, the Syria civil war has become a full blown sectarian battle. On the one side are the Shiites composed of the Syrian Alawaite sect, the Lebanese Shiites from Hezbollah, the Iraqi Shiite soldiers and the Iranian "support" troops from the al Quds brigade of the Iranian army. On the other side are the Sunni rebels and supporters from other Sunni countries like Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the like. The Sunnis have the advantage in numbers; over 75% of all Syrians are Sunni. The Shiites have the advantage in weaponry; Assad's arsenal is huge, and the Iranians are augmenting it both directly from Iran as well as from Iranian proxy Hezbollah. Since each side considers the other to be comprised of heretics, they each seem to have no problem killing the other at every possible moment. If this trend continues, we may soon see chemical attacks on the Sunnis by the Assad forces. If that actually happens, expect to see an outpouring of anger from the Sunni community in Syria which will be expressed by the mass murder of Alawaites unfortunate enough to be found by the Sunnis.

To top all this off, with Hezbollah forces in Syria fighting alongside the Assad soldiers, the possibility that nerve gas gets transferred to the terror group has risen dramatically. We are not just watching one group kill another group in Syria. The whole world may soon be involved.

I congratulate president Obama and the State Department for their "brilliant" handling of this situation. An uprising that could have been brought to fruition without mass murder may well be the start of a regional conflict that kills hundreds of thousands or even millions.