The Patriarch of Antioch, Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, said...If the West wants to do something about the present crisis, the most effective thing would be to support local governments, which need sufficient armies and forces to maintain security and defend respective populations against attacks.
"State institutions need to be strengthened and stabilised. Instead, what we see is their forced dismemberment being fuelled from the outside," he told Vatican Insider.http://www.christiantoday.com/artic...roups.who.are.massacring.our.people/57747.htm
Of course President Assad of Syria regime can be brutal, but Christians were a protected minority there. President Assad of Syria regime of course had problems but it was secular, unlike the most powerful Syrian opposition groups in Syria who have extremist Islamic agendas.
Right now the US and the West is funding and supplying arms that have links to groups with extremist Islamist agendas as they just don't want ISIS defeated but also Assad overthrown and think that peace can happen if Assad is overthrown.
"State institutions need to be strengthened and stabilised. Instead, what we see is their forced dismemberment being fuelled from the outside," he told Vatican Insider.http://www.christiantoday.com/artic...roups.who.are.massacring.our.people/57747.htm
Of course President Assad of Syria regime can be brutal, but Christians were a protected minority there. President Assad of Syria regime of course had problems but it was secular, unlike the most powerful Syrian opposition groups in Syria who have extremist Islamic agendas.
Right now the US and the West is funding and supplying arms that have links to groups with extremist Islamist agendas as they just don't want ISIS defeated but also Assad overthrown and think that peace can happen if Assad is overthrown.