Sunday, January 13, 2013

Syrian President Assad Still Believes That He Can Control The Country



Assad Still Confident That He Can Control Syria -- Washington Post

BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remains confident that he can ride out the maelstrom engulfing his country, casting into doubt prospects that intensified efforts to negotiate an end to the bloodshed can succeed, according to Syrians familiar with the thinking of the regime.

Although Assad isn’t winning the fight against the rebels, he isn’t losing, either — at least not yet, or by enough of a margin to make him feel he needs to abandon his efforts to crush the rebellion by force and embark on negotiations that would end his hold on power and expose his loyalists to the threat of revenge, the Syrians and analysts say.

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My Comment:
If this is what he is thinking .... he has clearly lost touch with what is happening on the ground.

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