Bashar al-Assad brought this on by turning the tanks loose on population centers. He asked for it. This started out as a fairly benign movement, almost, you know, an incipient democracy, and he opened up with the artillery.
Bob Baer discusses how Assad's violent response to peaceful protests escalated the situation in Syria.
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