American Warrior
Banned
And you think that Bassel would have immediately crushed this uprising?Bashar vacillated to much. He didn't want to come down with an iron first in fear of provoking foreign intervention, but he wasn't willing to give up power too much. In the end, a dictatorship shouldn't bend to popular will unless it intends on dismantling itself - giving in to the crowd without giving up power entirely just makes the regime look weak.