REVOLUTION AND IMPERIALISM IN SYRIA

I think this still mistakes the argument over foreign intervention a little, few people want Western troops, but the argument over munitions has been largely that there is not enough, rather than too much, going to the armed opposition. I saw a BBC newsreader this morning lazily repaeting the claim that Syria has become a proxy war, a common misunderstanding of the motives of those foreign fighters that there are, who are there out of solidarity rather than as paid agents of the Gulf states.
"The toppling of the Assad regime by the democracy movement would bring about a much deeper change in the state and society in Syria than it did in Egypt or Tunisia, as it would also be a defeat for the army and the corrupt elites."