"To say Syria is now a disaster is a massive understatement. This is a sectarian civil war which could continue for a decade if the regime's enemies, led by the brutal Saudi tyranny, continue to wage their proxy war on the country. The mostly widely-relied-on body-count, that of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (a group which is close to armed rebels, and whose reliability I have questioned in the past), now states that 120,000 Syrians have been killed. The Syrian Observatory claims that the majority of these are combatants. It also says the majority of these combatant dead on have been on the pro-Assad side. The fact of this imbalance is conveniently ignored by western media reporting, which continues with its untenable narrative about about a revolution of unarmed Syrian protesters which only took up arms after being shot down by the evil Assad regime. If that was true, why do even the Syrian Observatory's figures not bare this picture out? There was never a revolution in Syria." (thanks Asa)