Sunday, January 06, 2013

Once a dictator, always a dictator

The most revealing sentence of Bashar al-Assad's delusional rant before an even more delusional audience in Damascus today --

The political solution will be along the following lines:

His supposed solution -- ceasefires, dialogues, constitutions, and reconciliation conferences -- shows that Syrian regime has learned to ape the language of actual peace processes elsewhere, while of course having zero commitment to the substance.