"Today, Bashar Al-Assad is playing the role of the son of the Levanter, offering his services to any would-be buyer through interviews with whoever passes through the corner of Damascus where he is hiding. At first glance, the Levanter may appear attractive to those engaged in sordid games. In the end, however, the Levanter must betray his existing paymaster in order to begin serving a new one. Four years ago, Bashar switched to the Tehran-Moscow axis and is now trying to switch back to the Tel-Aviv-Washington one that he and his father served for decades. However, if the story has one lesson to teach, it is that the Levanter is always the source of the problem, rather than part of the solution. ISIS is there because almost half a century of repression by the Assads produced the conditions for its emergence. What is needed is a policy based on the truth of the situation in which both Assad and ISIS are parts of the same problem."
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Amir Taheri, Opinion: Like Father, Like Son , Ashraq Al-Awsat (Feb 20, 2015)
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Bashar al-Assad
Bashar al-Assad (born 11 September, 1965) is a Syrian politician who was the country's president from 2000 to 2024. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who was the president of Syria from 1971 to 2000.
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