While Assad has secured the Alawite community’s renewed support, he has done so at the cost of increasing the very real danger that the rebels will punish all Alawites for the regime’s crimes.
Embora Assad tenha garantido a renovação do apoio da comunidade alauita, fê-lo à custa de aumentar o perigo muito real de os rebeldes punirem todos os alauitas pelos crimes do regime.