Bashar Assad has been much maligned, and unjustly so. Until there is proof he used poison gas, it is an unknown, for ISIS and other terrorists groups in Syria have been proven to have possession of these same chemicals.
Dr Bashar, as he was known at the Western Eye clinic at London’s St Mary’s Hospital, where he trained as an eye surgeon in the 90s, is remembered as ‘a sensitive young man who was incredibly polite and punctual’.
‘Everyone who worked with him found him that way,’ He wasn’t arrogant. You would never have guessed he was a president’s son.
‘He was quiet and never really spoke about his family. But if anyone asked him a direct question he very politely answered it honestly.’
Assad spent his time in London, living on his own in a rented flat, avoiding any obvious signs that he was the son of a powerful Middle Eastern ruler. He was fond of Phil Collins and Whitney Houston music, and thrilled by technology and computers.
But in 1994, after the death of his older brother Basel in a car crash, Bashar was recalled to Syria and g***med for the role of President by his father, former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. In June 2000, after the death of his father, he took over the role of leader.
At first he attempted to introduce modern, democratic reforms, but a 7th century bloodthirsty group of opponents calling themselves ISIS attempted to seize his country and with no assistance initially, from the Western nations, he fought back with the weapons and allies he could muster together.
Bashar Assad's ruling minority Alawite government should remain as the ruler of Syria. He protected all the minorities; the Assyrian Christians who still speak the ancient Aramaic language of Jesus; the Druze, the Ismailis, the Kurds (descended from the Biblical Medes), the Sabaeans, the Yazidis and many others, before this war began, as his father had done for forty years before him.
Barack Obama h**ed him, as do the sunni muslim majority in Syria, because he is not an orthodox muslim, for the Alawites are an ancient hybrid religious mix of Islam, Christian, Zoroastrian and Manichaean.
He has always insisted he was fighting terrorists, i.e., ISIS, but the western governments refused to listen to him until ISIS had taken much of both Syrian and Iraqi territory.
cold iron wrote:
Assad and his regime need to be taken out. Only more death will come of him to his people. Just another little Hitler he is.