Syrian Presidential messages …interesting and tragic

Everyday it would seem,  British newspapers are coming up with new Syrian e-mails. Reading them is interesting on the one hand and tragic on the other as they highlight a world far apart from what is happening in Syria. Reading these messages from the president and the first lady suggest a dialogue blind to the  tragedy unfolding in this country and the absence of any actions by the ruler to deal with the real problems inflicting the people. Two things should draw your attention while reading the e-mail exchanges between President Bashar al-Assad and those around him or his wife. The first thing is the kind people whom the Syrian president listens to for advice, or rather who is permitted to offer this advice. Apart from one who is affiliated to the Iranian regime and Hezbollah, these pearls of wisdom,  in most cases, come from amateurs and psycophants who have nothing to do but to satisfy al-Assad  and reassure him that he will not be subjected to international and regional conspiracy. It is a relationship with someone who does not accept,  nor does his wife, any kind of criticism or give and take. Concrete proof of this is the breakdown in communications with the one person, perhaps, who tried to return Assad's wife to the real world by suggesting that she should move her family abroad instead of  remaining to continue the bloodshed. The other remarkable thing  the e-mails express is the total isolation in which  the ruling family are living, a kind of bubble land which bears no resemblance to the immediate world going on around them. The regime has to face up to reality and admit that everything is over.  What Syria has experienced  since March 2011 is a popular revolution in every sense of the word, and that there is no place for the regime to run to. All Bashar al-Assad can do is  prepare a transition period in which he will hand over power and go back to his hobbies and give up the rhetoric  and nonsense words which have nothing to do with "objections" and "resistance" as well as all these superstitions and the like. In the latest speech given by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah the Secretary General of Hezbollah, a party affiliated to Iran, he argues that the solution in Syria can never be anything other than "political". Yes, the solution in Syria can never be "military", hence the Secretary-General of the party is supposed to convince the Syrian president of this fact.  What confirms that the military option is not a solution is that despite the fire power of the  forces loyal to the regime, and with Iranian aid and Russian support, it was  still not able to extinguish the Syrian Revolution.  YASMEEN PLEASE CHECK The Syrian president is entitled to ridicule reforms. His wife is also entitled to indulge in the lap of luxury. All these are a natural right, especially if they have the financial freedom to do so. What is unnatural is that indulging in this kind of life will have consequences which affect Syrians and the future of Syria. To elaborate further, when someone like Bashar expresses his love of culture including a particular type of music, this does not permit him or any of his family members, to impose a culture of death and degradation on Syrians. Syrians are not the fools be believes. They are knowledgeable enough to realise that it is time for change. One year on from the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, Syrians express their love for life itself. They have shown that despite half a century of living under the thumb of the Baath party, followed by the rule of the same dynasty, then the rule of the sole family, will not be able to tame them. They simply proved that the lie which is called the Syrian regime over-stayed its welcome. What kind of  a Syrian regime is it which calls for secularism in Syria and supports a sectarian militant party in Lebanon, but also at the mercy of this party? What kind of a regime is this which no longer knows who supports it in Lebanon but a "ghost" in the Christian guise  of MP Michel Aoun or an Iranian militia whose presence on  Lebanese soil was well known? What kind of regime is willing to liberate Palestine from southern Lebanon, while the Golan Heights has been tightly closed since 1974? What regime could not afford Rafik Hariri? What regime had nothing to do with muzzling Samir Kassir, Gebran Tueni, Pierre Gemayel, Wakid Eido, Antoine Ghanem, George Hawi and Wissam Eid and the attempted assassination of Marwan Hamadeh, Elias Murr and May Chidiac? Why do those in charge of the Syrian regime not transfer their love of all that is sweet and  beautiful and civilised in the world to the people instead of degrading the Syrians and trading the Lebanese and Palestinians and everything else which lnds in its  hands? Is it somesort of  schizophrenia which they, as well as the whole regime suffer from? The greatness of the Syrian people lies in their saying "No" to the regime, and that the revolution will continue regardless of their opponents' differences at home and abroad. They simply told the regime that it has to go sooner rather than later, and that Syria refuses to accept fake slogans or be deprived of its liberty so that "Al Hakim Bi Amr Allah" will enjoy the beautiful things in the world. Syrians can temporarily be satisfied with freedom… even if their women cannot afford Christian Louboutin shoes!  --