Of these options, which Head of State do you believe to be the most dangerous?

[freshwest]

51. I guess I'm having trouble understanding how dad got away with it, too. The civil war is a bit late.

I'd never heard good things about the father or the son. Damn, things are rough over there most of the time. Kind of pre United Nations, or human rights. But then Syria has been around for centuries, as I noted here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017143236

Thousands of years of history for the people, although the nation itself was defined by WW1. And I suppose by WW2. Now folks are saying it's the beginning of WW3.

From what I've been reading, there are global connections through Syria, but I'm not sure why this is the case. Could be that 'location X3' thing... I would think Turkey is more important.

Now I'm reading, but only in passing, thank goodness, conspiracies about the Jews - that train is never late! - set up Al Queda and Wahabism. Now we have people saying Obama is giving Syria to Al Queda? Is this the next big CT?

And I read the Russians provoked the 6-Day War. I'd never imagined such a thing. Syria was in the Byzantine Empire which is gone, but the page on Byzantism describes what we are up against here, with our inexperience:

Byzantinism or Byzantism is a term used in political science and philosophy to denote the political system and culture of the Byzantine Empire, and its spiritual successors, in particular, the Balkan states, the Ottoman Empire and Russia.[1][2] The term byzantinism itself was coined in the 19th century.[3] The term has primarily negative associations, implying complexity and autocracy.

This negative reputation stressed the confusing complexities of the Empire's ministries, the elaborateness of its court ceremonies, as well as its supposed lack of backbone in martial affairs. Likewise, the "Byzantine system" also suggests a penchant for intrigue, plots and assassinations and an overall unstable political state of affairs. The term has been criticized by modern scholars for being a generalization that is not very representative of the reality of the Byzantine aristocracy and bureaucracy.[4][5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantinism



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire

I can't wrap my mind about what this is. From either side. I really do not want this. I do understand that strategic strikes can work but in a country with that many people?

What a hellish mess. I'm mad at Assad for being such a fool and doing all of this because it cannot work in the long run, nor should it work. IMHO.

Thanks for expressing your opinions on this.