How the Syrian regime would benefit from Free Syrian Army bombings

Let me tell you an eyewitness story.  The Syrian army in Lebanon engaged in the most thuggish behavior in Lebanon during the war years.  If you look at a previous blog post of mine on the anniversary of the Lebanese civil war from a few years ago, I told one one of the most emotionally difficult moment of my life.  When Syrian army soldiers stopped me after midnight with a female comrade while we were putting posters and graffiti on the walls of Beirut.  And how they asked me to leave because one of them wanted to rape (he said "fuck" in Arabic) the female comrade.  (I did not leave, of course).  So stories like that made the Syrian army extremely unpopular by 1982 when much of the Syrian troops in Beirut left the city. Yet, between 1984 and 1987, Beirut was overrun by the most thuggish militias: the Amal Movement, the Jumblat's militia, and Murabitun (before its defeat).  People in Beirut were suffered so much under the rule of the militias that various Sunni family delegations flocked to the Syrian capital to beg Hafidh Al-Asad to send his army back to Beirut.  And he, of course, did after making delegations after delegation beg him.  I now hear that many in Syria are shifting to the side of the regime for fear of the rule of militias--a la Libya in the wake of NATO liberation.