"Syrian president Bashar Al Assad is the only Arab leader who inherited the presidency from his father within the framework of a Republican system"

How about the King of Jordan? Also I seriously doubt that a man who is being watched by the whole world would be cutting the face off babies, shooting peaceful protesters and some of the other crazy atrocities they accuse him of doing. This all seem like the rape stories we heard with the Libyan episode which we all know were lies.

They should try peaceful protests like the Egyptians and Tunisians did cos once you bring fire arms into the equation you risk being attacked by the offical Syrians army. Drop the guns, win popular support, hit the streets and the Syrian govt would be finished

They did start with peaceful protests. They were gunned down.

"This all seem like the rape stories we heard with the Libyan episode which we all know were lies."
And how do you know that? What/where is your proof?

"Also I seriously doubt that a man who is being watched by the whole world would be cutting the face off babies, shooting peaceful protesters and some of the other crazy atrocities they accuse him of doing."
Really? really? that people do not commit atrocities because the world is watching? really?
You live in an unreal world.

as Egyptian troops shot protesters AND journalists, sometimes in the head, deliberately sniping at them from rooftops;
as Egyptian troops drove military vehicles at full speed into and through crowds of people;
as, recently, one girl was stomped by several Egyptian military men, who tore off her shirt exposing her blue bra,
and making for a very famous photograph ( and film) of a hideous act of violence.

except for the intense censoring going on.
And it seems to me that what is being censored a lot is what WE are doing in various countries.

I wish i could talk to those young men sitting in their little office, controlling the drones from half a world away, as if it is one big video game, so marvelously isolated from the death and destruction of other human beings.

(Reuters) - The International Criminal Court prosecutor said Wednesday he may charge Muammar Gaddafi's spy chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, and others suspected of involvement in hundreds of rapes in Libya during this year's conflict.

The Hague-based court has already indicted Senussi on charges of crimes against humanity and other war crimes.

ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he was close to completing an investigation into the use of rape by Gaddafi's forces as they battled an eight-month insurgency.

Earlier this month, Moreno-Ocampo told the U.N. Security Council he was investigating whether the former Libyan leader, now dead, and his spy chief ordered mass rapes.

"We have indications that Senussi was involved in organizing the rapes, but not Saif," Moreno-Ocampo told Reuters, referring to Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam, who has also been charged with crimes against humanity and is on the run.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/09/us-libya-icc-idUSTRE7A82LA20111109

So I'd interpret that statement as a warning that he is running out of time.