The Assad regime fell due to its own failures, not geopolitical plots. Syrians face new fears

“Look, Shi’a,” man in the grainy video declaims smugly, “this is how you will end up, you dogs.” Eleven years ago, jihadists from the ranks of al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, stormed the small village of Hatla, on the banks of the Euphrates and…