Assad is only trying to stop Sunni supremacists spreading their evil

It is obscene how the propaganda machine rolls out in the West to set its case against the Assad regime. All the more hypocritical when it comes from Obama and other people who objected to the removal of Saddam Hussein on the grounds that he was a wicked dictator.

Assad may be an authoritarian ruler but by no means is he of the same league as Hussein. In fact he is looking like that necessary secular tyrant that holds back the terror of Sunni Islamist empowerment as exhibited by IS, Al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda and other associated terror groups in Africa. Under Assad there was relative freedom and rights for minorities.

It is almost an absurdity that his governing Syria should be deemed illegitimate when so many countries in the UN are ruled by tyrannical regimes.