It’s a dangerous time to be a Middle East dictator

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It’s a dangerous time to be a Middle East dictator.

President Bashar Assad of Syria is discovering that these are difficult times for Arab dictators. Intense American pressure, supported for once by the United Nations and even by Russia and France, has obliged him to pull his troops out of Lebanon. This is a signal defeat for power politics as practiced in the Arab world, and it leaves Bashar in the eye of the rising storm. Somehow he has to find a way of converting evident weakness and surrender into strength, or at least the appearance of it. Otherwise his own downfall comes next.
 
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It’s a dangerous time to be a Middle East dictator.

President Bashar Assad of Syria is discovering that these are difficult times for Arab dictators. Intense American pressure, supported for once by the United Nations and even by Russia and France, has obliged him to pull his troops out of Lebanon. This is a signal defeat for power politics as practiced in the Arab world, and it leaves Bashar in the eye of the rising storm. Somehow he has to find a way of converting evident weakness and surrender into strength, or at least the appearance of it. Otherwise his own downfall comes next.
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La France est à bord ? hmmm and UN…

good sign…don’t you think?
 
I’m sure Bashar has many times regretted the day that older brother Basel got drunk and ran his Mercedes off the Airport Road and into the trees, killing himself and causing Bashar to be dragged back from his medical practice in London to become the Crown Prince.

And I’m sure the time will come when he well regret that day even more than he does now.

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