While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.
Assad has to go. I mean, the way that ISIS can recruit, and the rebels that are in the north, and all the chaos that's happening through a lot of Syria circles around a lot of people that do not like Assad.
The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.
Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?
We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.
Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.
This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs to the small Alawite sect and is therefore considered a heretic by many Sunnis; al-Assad runs a secular regime, and therefore he is considered by Sunni militants to be an apostate, and he is inflicting a total war on his Sunni population.
Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS.
Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
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