Any idiot, especially if they are Muslims, supported the foreign backing against Assad are just that: Idiots! To me, even its early days, it was evident that this would benefit Israel which wanted to remove one more rival, after removing Saddam. I remember way back, probably in 2012, I challenged a Turkish PDF guy who was all about why Turkey should help topple Assad because he was butchering his people. I said something like 'Toppling Assad would benefit only Israel and that it was not Turkey's place to meddle in the affairs of other countries and that Turkey too has done things to its Kurdish minority'. He didn't like my response and said something like 'We Turks support you Pakistanis against India despite potentially losing trade benefits with India'. I said 'I appreciate it but your real friends would give you the best advice for your own interests'.