The sorrows of young Bashar

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: March 18, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Jerusalem Post Correspondent, DAMASCUS
Jerusalem Post
03-18-2005
Headline: The sorrows of young Bashar
Byline: Jerusalem Post Correspondent, DAMASCUS
Edition; Up Front
Section: Features
Page: 12

Friday, March 18, 2005 -- President Bashar al-Assad had just conceded the only sliver of empire Syria possessed. In his March 5 address to parliament, Assad, fighting for his political life, appeared to alternate between pedantry and defensiveness as he served up a speech that destroyed all that his father, Hafez al-Assad, had built during a 30-year reign.

Having told the world what it wanted to hear, ...

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