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Assad dynasty ends with a whimper The House of Assad has fallen. Its 54-year reign of terror ended in humiliation this weekend, with Bashar al-Assad fleeing as HTS rebels stormed Damascus. Assad’s father, Hafez, was infamous for genocidal repression, most notably in Hama, where a 1982 uprising ended with tens of thousands dead. Bashar inherited… Read more.
It’s demeaning enough that President Trump plans to travel all the way to Singapore just to “get to know” the genocidal dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. But it seems Kim is willfully insulting Trump. For only this explains Kim making such a show of fraternizing with the genocidal dictator of Syria, Bashir al-Assad, with… Read more.
Members of both the U.S. Congress and UK Parliament deemed debate over military strikes against Syria so important that they interrupted summer vacations to participate. I felt obliged to do the same. Here’s my question for every member of Congress and every member of the global community: What message will we send if a dictator… Read more.
In a rare show of unity, the United States and Russia are calling on the United Nations to investigate claims that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on Wednesday to kill over 1000 people, including women and children. All indications are that the United States is trying to enlist a coalition of nations willing to… Read more.
For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside. One can be forgiven for thinking that, with those words, President Obama sealed Assad’s fate as surely as, with a thumb down, a Roman emperor sealed that of a gladiator. After all, as leader of the world’s only… Read more.
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Reports over the weekend on the massacre (door to door, execution style) of over 100 men, women, and children in the Houla region of Syria by forces still loyal to President Bashar al-Assad had the international community recoiling in horror. I have come to Syria at a critical moment in this crisis… I am personally shocked… Read more.
Won’t these brutal dictators ever learn? Think what you will of the cowardly path Tunisia’s Ben Ali took by fleeing into exile. At least he was smart enough to avoid the humiliation Egypt’s Mubarak is now suffering. Mubarak’s being wheeled into court on his deathbed to face trial, which will surely end in his Saddam-like… Read more.
Today, U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice recalled U.S. Envoy to Syria Margaret Scobey to protest the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafiq Hariri. This, even though she conceded that there’s no evidence Syria had anything to do with his death. Except that this diplomatic slap was only intended to warn President… Read more.
