Comment to http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/07/syria-failure-intervene-terrible-consequences-blair:

The best thing Blair can do for the people of Syria is to keep his mouth shut.

Assad and his top cronies do need to go, the torture and the barrel bombs must stop, but as much of the current government structure and armed forces need to be kept intact and not bombed into oblivion, as the simple fact is that the most powerful rebel groups at this point are current and former al-Qaeda affiliates al-Nusra Front and ISIL/ISIS, which also holds territory in western Iraq. Attacking the regime would just help al-Qaeda.

The regime, as vile as it is, is with the fence sitting Kurdish YPD the main semi-secular forces in Syria. Instead of wanting to give Syria to al-Qaeda, the so-called "West" should come up with bribes big enough - Golan Heights come to mind - to replace the regime's leadership and reform it as a core for a secular interim government with the Kurds and willing rebel factions and then given all the possible help to defeat al-Qaeda.

Al-Qaeda, whose every member should thank every day on their knees Tony Blair for everything that his geopolitical errors have given to them.