World: Syria: Bashar al-Assad defends violent, deadly crackdown on opposition
- Dealing with the outlaws who block the roads and the cities and terrorize the people is the duty of the state.
- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad • Validating his country’s stance against opposition in Syria, in the wake of violence that killed dozens yesterday alone. Question: What happens when the “outlaws who block the roads and the cities and terrorize the people” and “the state” are one in the same? Because in Syria, they are. source