The Syrian regime is in deep doo now, having chosen to start shooting people. The world is silent because the United States and Israel are likely hoping Asad will survive. Without him, there's no telling what kinds of demands will be made on the Golan Heights.
OK, then.
This is so ate up, I'll have to take it slow, to avoid the fissures in logic running through it.
The Syrian regime is in deep doo now, having chosen to start shooting people.
Uh, why?
BHO and the euro-weenies have shown zero stomach for taking on most anti-western ME regimes with truly heinous dictators and have been especially deferential to Iranian proxies. Why would they start getting all shooty now? The Assads have slaughtered thousands of folks over the years, sometimes in great concentrations, without drawing any effectual response from civilized countries.
So a few Assad regime thugs have unassed the AO. So what. As long as Assad has goons to shoot on protesters and Army units to grind them into treadjam, no worries. He can even import Iranian goons.
The world is silent because the United States and Israel are likely hoping Asad will survive.
Hey, I am the one with the base view of human nature in general and that of BHO's in particular. I'll not have anyone horning in on my turf, thanks.
BHO is (mostly) silent because he is
clueless and has been burned by the Arab (False) Spring twice already, and by the Iranian Green movement in 2009. He has made the Wrong Decision each and every time. He figures no decision is better than treading on his johnson with his golf shoes. Again. And hopes if he hides behind his desk, it will go away.
As for the Israeilis, I doubt that, too, because...
Without him, there's no telling what kinds of demands will be made on the Golan Heights.
Zero demands. Or, more precisely, zero demands from a unified Syria or Syrian gov't. IIRC, Syria has more sizable minority groups than Lebanon. If Assad & his regime goes down the toilet, I expect Syria to go the way of Lebanon. Ugly, chaotic, violent, but much less a force it would be under a unified gov't. They'll be in no shape to demand squat form anyone. Worst case scenario: another Iranian proxy butting up against Israel, but with no terrain advantage, since the Israelis have the Golan.