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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
How to Become a Dictator
2013-05-20
(h/t Instapundit)
“What you should do,” he said, “is establish the idea that you're indispensable, that you’re irreplaceable, that beyond you is the abyss of sectarian civil war, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and the breakup of the state. Create problems that only you can resolve. That's the mind game Bashar al-Assad
(and Barrack Obama)
is playing with you. As long as you can't see beyond him, he's
safe.”

Posted by:Glenmore

#2  OK, wasn't just me who saw that name in that sentence.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2013-05-20 15:31  

#1  Little need to read about it. We've lived it in the nightly news for well on to 5 years now.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-05-20 14:45  

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