That's the regime's side and that's the Russian side. There are even people in Washington.... We have heard it from a number of people. Ex-CIA head Hayden said that the regime should win, because we don't want what comes next, which is going to be worse. Ryan Crocker, one of our top diplomats, said something similar.
That is not a majority opinion. I think it is a strong opinion in intelligence and on the military side, because they see the rebels as being too dangerous and think that if the rebels conquer all Syria, Syria will become a failed state and they will be encouraging the people they were fighting against in Iraq. Other people say that Assad is much worse than the rebels, that he is the kind of tyrant who is killing people in bigger numbers and is more responsible for killing people, and that America should get rid of him.
I believe that Assad cannot win and reconquer all of Syria, because of the ethnic component and the minoritarian situation. I think that what is going to happen and what I think America should do is encourage a ceasefire. That would leave rebels in control of the north and Assad in control of the south and west. The difficulty would then be to get the rebels to try to create a regime that the west likes. If they could create one half of Syria that was friendly, then perhaps the rest of Syria would want to join in, like West Germany.