The really dishearting thing about all of this is that, like myself initially, many people thought the situation would calm down and the change over would be 'swift & fluent'. This uprising is not going to fade away, without one or the other clearly claiming victory, and at great loss to the other party. I do dua that victory is for those who have suffered at the hands of Assad, and regardless of who replaces him, the Muslims do not forget why they are in the situation they currectly are in - ameen. The point of no return has faded away in the distance, and I suspect we may even see a more prominant 'seperation' of Syria, as we seen with Iraq & Afghanistan; shias clearly on one side, with the sunnis on the other. May Allah help us.