I pity Bashar Assad
What can I say!
In a way, I pity this head of the regime, Bashar Assad!At a young age, and without any prior experience in seeking to achieve anything that his father had not arranged for him, he found himself inheriting the highest office of the land, that of the President of the Syrian Republic. Then, scores of opportunistic people across the Globe, from Madeleine Albright to President Chirac, to Arab dummy Monarchs and other dictators started inflating his ego describing him, and without the slightest right to do so, as the Young Western Educated President, The Internet hero and a Pioneer in the new technolgies, an open minded man who would carry the aspirations of the Syrians and open a new page for Syria. Other titles were also given to him freely without any truth to any of them. Then, Syrians from all sides of the spectrum also started to advertise him and inflate him as well, giving him new titles and putting all of their hopes in him, a man with the extraordinary capabilities (which he had not shown even one of them ever to the world, not by a book he had written, or even an article he had published, not even by an anonymous reply in an Internet site, what ever it may be) suddenly became the carrier of the oppositions hope in a new Syria, and this glorious 34 years old man without a past good or bad on whom those stupid opposition members who were called The Damascus Spring members would place all of their hopes and wishes on him.
Words after words made me more angry each day I was hearing them...that Young "Western Educated" Ass hole, believed himself and believed that he was really some body, and something. He started giving the "Most Educated Syrians" as they called themselves at the time in the epoch of the Damascus Spring, lessons in the Arabic langauge, and lessons on the meaning of the words, exactly as an elementary school teacher would behave faced with the ignorants in front of him./. This man became a philosopher on the meaning of the words he either uttered, or other people used. Words such "the most Cultivated', Freedom, Civil Socitey, etc...all became a matter of intrepretation for him. freedom did not mean freedom after all. We need to understand what exactly this Eye Western Educated Doctor meant by uttering the word Freedom, and respect for others opinions. It seems that the dummies who called themselves the Most Cultivated or Educated totally misinrepretted him and his words, and for that misunderstanding, they paid a very heavy price and they placed themselves in his prisons to be tortured the way Arabs torture dogs and cats.
And I go back to say I pity this man, for it wasn't his fault that the opportunists and the dummies inflated him to the degree that he believed himself, and became aware some how of his undefeatable brain, and power that he so stupidly made mistake after mistake and put himself in this hard position where, I aqm sure he will not escape. Listening to the threats that he gave Late Rafik Hariri before assassinating him, one can see that this inflated balloon had to flatten after all. What he said to Hariri can never be said by a president to any body, lest be to a famous man like Rafik Hariri, and he appeared to his true nature, a small boy after all, in charge of 2 difficult countries, Syria, and Lebanon!JAM
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