Is Bashar
Asad a Nice Person Surrounded by a Wicked Clique? Or,
the Son of the Devil Incarnate?
Bashar Asad’s apologists
propagate that he is a nice person surrounded by a nasty coterie of opportunists. It is
argued here that Bashar is the boss of a wicked Mafia family of sycophants and that he is
personally responsible for the long suffering of the majority of Syrians and the destruction and dismemberment of most of their homeland
The Childhood in a Home of
Intrigue, Conspiracy, and Betrayal
Bashar’s father, Hafiz, was
deceitful, cunning, cruel, and recklessly adventurous. Bashar inherited his father's DNA. He learned by example. When he was 15 years of age, he
witnessed his father and uncle, Rif'at, destroy the city of Hama in February
1982. He watched the killing of tens of thousands of men, women, and children; the maiming of hundreds of thousands; the destruction of
most of that city of 400,000 inhabitants; the execution of thousands; and, the forced migration of tens
of thousands to neighboring countries. Earlier, on June 27, 1980, the
day following a failed assassination attempt on Hafiz, hand grenades and
machine-guns annihilated at least five hundred inmates in the cells of the
notorious Palmyra jail.
The Police State
Bashar Asad presides over a
monstrous police state composed of myriad blood curdling “Abu Ghraib” type
prisons with demonic interrogation dungeons manned by sadistic security men. He inherited this monstrous network from his father, who had made himself president for thirty years before his demise in 2000. A million eyes and ears snoop in schools, universities, mosques,
and offices. Like that of his father, Bashar’s killing machine bulldozes its
way through Syrian society. Live ammunition is used to disperse unarmed
demonstrators. At the slightest suspicion, victims are arrested and tortured;
some spend years in prison without charge. Others might expire under torture.
Wives and children of dissidents are often hauled away and tortured in order to
reveal the whereabouts of a wanted relative and/or to force the wanted person
to surrender.
The cruelty of the regime is
legendary. Amnesty International documented 38 types of torture used against
detainees; including, electrical shocks, pulling out fingernails, burning
genitalia, forcing objects into the rectum, beatings while the victim is
suspended from the ceiling and on the soles of the feet, alternately dousing
victims with freezing water and beating them in extremely cold rooms,
hyperextending the spine, bending the body into the frame of a wheel and
whipping exposed body parts, using a backward-bending chair to asphyxiate the
victim or fracture the spine, and stripping prisoners naked for public view.[1]
The Mafia Enterprise
In its illegitimacy, lawlessness, and violence, the Asad regime
is a Mafia family. At best, the enterprise might have counted on the support of
about a third of the population. Today, with most of the country demolished and dismembered, junior might produce 20%. Shielding the family from most of Syria’s
75% Sunni majority are trusted Alawite soldiers. An outer protective
ring is composed of opportunistic non-Alawi soldiers and hangers-on. The relashionship between the
Asads and their security commanders is one of mutual dependency: Help the
Asads’ hold on power and you will get very rich quickly. Institutionalized
corruption keeps the enterprise together. Breaking the law with impunity
is the glue that binds the group. Dissolve the glue and the entire edifice will
collapse.
The Ultimate Act of Evil
The
father's legendary viciousness is exceeded only by the son's cruelty and treachery. In dealing
with Syria's popular revolution since March 18, 2011, he killed and maimed 2-3
million citizens, may be more, made around six million citizens refugees in
Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey in addition to six millions displaced within
Syria. He and his Russian and Iranian mercenaries bulldozed
most of Syria's major cities; Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Idlib, Deir Ezzor, and Raqqa.
To
destroy most of the homeland, Bashar Asad must suufer from a serious mental
disorder. He exhibits psychopathic characteristics, such as, inflated sense of self-worth, pathological lying, deceitful
glibness, conning of others, lack of remorse or empathy, shallow emotions, lack of realistic goals,
impulsiveness, using and blaming others, criminal acts in several realms (criminal versatility).[2]
GlobalSecurity.org, “Syria Intelligence & Security Agencies.”
https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/syria/intro.htm
Natasha Tracy, “Psychopathy: Definition,
Symptoms, Signs and Causes,” HealthyPlace.
https://www.healthyplace.com/personality-disorders/psychopath/psychopathy-definition-symptoms-signs-and-causes/
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