Analyze Broader Regional Implications

of escalating Syrian crisis status position of pawn religious... minorities will become an increasingly important volatile issue as ethnic Druze build underground bunkers in rugged southwest mountains Druze; Christian; sideline minorities; not siding with revolt opposition play cat mouse waiting games Christian leaders in Syria... condemned the Arab League's political suspension of Syria League's organization imposition of sanctions on Assad's regime? enter yet another chess piece Syrian foreign Kurds remain divided many still suspicious of the Sunni Arabs in the SNC their ties to decades enemy Turkey... Assad continues attempt to exploit past present Kurdish Turkish conflicts Assad reaches out to Kurds in Syria's northeast therefore view an internal end to Syria's conflict in near future as unlikely a full-blown sectarian civil war looms on present horizons could be avoided if an aspiring Alawite... general overthrows Assad by means of a coup military seems unlikely? risk indicators uncertain radar images no Alawite signs of traitor aggressive plots?