Analysis: With Echoes Of Saddam, Syria's Assad May Endure -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Having crushed a popular uprising, he rules by force over an Arab land shattered by conflict and sanctions, his people too exhausted and cowed to resist.
Is this the fate awaiting Syria under Bashar al-Assad?
Saddam Hussein lasted for 12 years after his defeat in the 1991 Gulf War until a U.S.-led invasion unleashed chaos and carnage from which Iraq, for all its oil, has yet to recover.
The trajectories of the two Baathist leaders are far from parallel, but Saddam's prolonged survival is a warning to anyone who believes Assad will fall simply because he has alienated the West and its Arab allies or earned the hatred of countless Syrians, including perhaps most of its Sunni Muslim majority.
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My Comment: The world has changed since Saddam Hussein .... but yes .... if Assad and his supporters do not lose their will to survive and fight, they do have a chance to survive this rebellion .... but life for them in such a future Syria will be very dangerous and not at all safe.
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