Why Syrians Support Bashar al Assad | Global Research
What
do Syrians think, and why do they continue to support a man the western
powers have claimed is constantly attacking and terrorising ‘his own
people’? To understand this we must consider the huge gap between the
western caricature of Bashar al Assad the ‘brutal dictator’ and the
popular and urbane figure within Syria.
If we believed most
western media reports we would think President Assad has launched
repeated and indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas, including the
gassing of children. We might also think he heads an ‘Alawi regime’,
where a 12% minority represses a Sunni Muslim majority, crushing a
popular ‘revolution’ which, only recently, has been ‘hijacked’ by
extremists.
