Assad finds new strength in adversity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldbriefing/story/0,15205,1503312,00.html
Simon Tisdall
Friday June 10, 2005
The Guardian
Predictions that Syria's Ba'athist regime would follow its Iraqi
counterpart into oblivion in the wake of last spring's forced
withdrawal from Lebanon are looking like White House wishful thinking.
Viewed from the ringside, this seems surprising. By most conventional
political measures, President Bashar al-Assad should be on the canvas
and out for the count.
The pan-Arabism championed by his late father, Hafez al-Assad, is a
vanquished dream. Even the Arab world standard-bearer, Egypt, has
joined neighbours like Jordan and Iraq in pursuit of US-certified
neo-democratic nationalism.
Simon Tisdall
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Bashar Assad
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Syria
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