In 2000 when Hafez al-Assad died, we were in Vietnam, and curtailed a day of tourism to watch the news play out on CNN. Since having read Patrick Seale's definitive Asad: The Struggle for the Millde East, I've had a special appetite for his little eye doctor boy's regime to go. Let the chips fall where they may, and let us hope we can all visit a free Damascus soon. We can hope, can't we?
The Belgravia Dispatch weighs in.
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