re: #2 Obdicut

Bullshit. Assad is as secular dictatorship like Saddam’s was. Just because you don’t like the regime does not mean you have to deny reality. The only virtue that Assad’s regime has is that it i secular and keeps religious fanatics at bay for the sake of public order. That’s not much I know but if I lived there that would be good enough for me compared to the rest of the Middle East.