Serenely Delusional

"The power of the state is derived from the power of the people, whose power is derived from their dignity, which in turn is derived from the freedom, which is again derived from the power of their state. So, let the people embrace the state and let the army, the security personnel, the police and the people work hand in hand to prevent sedition, protect the homeland and ensure its supremacy." Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

The seditionists, the foreign enemies, the terrorists, are working hand in glove, unfortunately, against the state. And its supremacy is no longer quite so assured. Despite the efforts of the security personnel, the police and the people working hand in hand. And isn't this so typical of the Middle East? With its perversions and contortions of tribalism and sectarian hatreds?

Although no entities have yet claimed triumph/responsibility for the suicide bombings that have targeted government security buildings in Damascus the crisis that Syria has become is most certainly escalating. Sympathetic with the Alawite regime are those, such as Syrian Christians, who have good reason to fear the Sunni revolt and the Muslim Brotherhood that supports it.

They far prefer to remain under the oppressive thumb of the devil they know. Whose reign has not been completely harmful to their continued longevity. Those threatening to replace that reign have amply demonstrated otherwise. But the regime of Bashar al-Assad is resolute, well-armed and -trained, and has no intention of surrendering their primacy to military deserters and those claiming to represent the best interests of an alternate vision of Syria.

"Syria is used to creating victories and defeating the enemies of the nation. It knows how to do it, to add new victories and leave warmongers and blood merchants to taste the bitterness of defeat and disappointment"; the claim of a purposefully infallible Bashar al-Assad, born to lead, the inheritor of a legend and prepared to repeat his father's success against the Muslim Brotherhood.

Well over 8,000 Syrians have died in the past year of protests and militant strikes against the regime. Although President al-Bashar has his own take on those deaths, most of which have been committed by terrorists and other vicious scum against innocents who support his regime. The torture, rape and assorted atrocities committed by the regime against civilians were also the work of foreign invaders.

Turkey has received some 14,000 refugees from Syria, crossing the border near Idlib, and may provide a safety corridor within Syrian territory to protect those who continue to flood into Turkey for safe haven. The United Nations has put forward an estimate of 200,000 people left homeless refugees by the civil war, a result of Bashar al Assad's troops firing heavy artillery at city neighbourhoods, to suppress the uprising.

"Not everybody in the street was frighting for freedom. You have different components - you have extremists, religious extremists, you have outlaws, people who have been convicted in the courts. We don't kill our people... No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person. For me, as President, I became President because of the public support. It's impossible for anyone, in this state, to give order[s] to kill people."

A crazy person? Does being serenely delusional qualify?