49 قتيلا الأحد في سوريا والقوات السورية تقصف الرستن بعد بسط سيطرتها على بابا عمرو

We were wrong to think that in 2012, Assad the Son could not create a massacre as did Assad the Father did in 1982 in Hama. Thirty years later Bashar el Assad is creating multiple Hamas. Homs was first, then Rastan, then Idlib and Daraa. He will have massacres all over Syria, where ever he finds opposition, which is everywhere.

Like Michael Corleone in Godfather, Bashar is now killing his own family out of some misguided idea of a failure of loyalty. How strange that with the Mafia, Family is First - its protection and promotion. It is an insult to the Mafia to call the Assads mafiosa. The Assads find anyone and everyone expendible for the sake of the pursuit of power and survival.
That the rest of the world cannot see the danger and act upon it, this is the true shame arising from events in Syria.

truth
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/javier-espinosa-escaped-syria-but-syrian-news-outlet-reported-his-death/2012/03/02/gIQA8YsfmR_blog.html

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fantasy
http://sana.sy/eng/21/2012/03/02/403709.htm

True. Unfortunately it is also true that the opposition is not going to be Democratic either. Most likely it is going to be like the Egypt model, where the secular citizens spearheaded the revolution but the islamists took over power and they will write a constitution that is going to be just as dictatorial and unfair, except it will be so for the minorities. The culprit lies in the upbringing and religious teachings that preaches rigid thoughts, non-tolerance of diversity,, as well ass violence. The Middle East is doomed to become the place for fanatics while the enlightened minds are either killed or leave to the west. It is a gloomy but likely scenario that I am painting. I wish Lebanon can immunize itself from such trend, but I am seeing it in Lebanon to. The pre-1975 Lebanon was a place for thinkers and minorities escaping their regimes. Today's Lebanon is fertile ground for fanaticism and intolerance.

Name calling is embedded in the intolerant mentality I described. Sometimes it is used in liue of a weak argument, other times used to simply force their argument.
To respond to Mr. hasanxxxx- The West also has solid constitution that is supreme, protective of all citizens, and ensures democratic practicces regardless of who wins elections. Also the Western mentality is very protective of minority rights, both are missing in the M.E. mentality (again teachings and upbringing).

@helicopter: Last time i Checked there were free elections in Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood won the most seats, how are they not democratic? If in the future they try to take away the rights of Egyptians to vote (as Mubarak did before) then we'll talk.

All the Syrians want is democracy, elections, freedom of speech and freedom from oppression. These are basic human rights that every people should have.

This is a golden opportunity for Lebanon, if the Assad regime falls they won't be meddling in Lebanon as they have for decades and the fake resistance will lose one of its two main pillars of support which hopefully will make them negotiate instead of hold Lebanon hostage.