Apparently, Syrian president Bashar Assad told ABC News' Barbara Walters that he did not authorize the military to use deadly force against the protesters. Responding to the questions about whether or not the Syrian troops were using too much force, Assad claimed, "They are not my troops." Say what? Not his troops? Then whose troops are they? Assad explains, "They are military forces [who] belong to the government. I don't own them. I'm president. I don't own the country." And this rationalization has to come straight out of the You Have Got to be Kidding Me file. The president of the country, who is also the commander in chief of the armed forces, just like in the USA, is claiming that he has no authority over his own military. We see in the picture 
the results of the military's apparently unauthorized attacked on the city of Hama. I'd like to know - and I'm sure a lot of other people would too - if he isn't in control of Syria's armed forces, then who is? What is sounds like to me - and I'm no foreign policy expert or anything - that Bashar Assad is trying to position himself for what's going to happen after is inevitable fall from power. Old Assad is beginning to see the handwriting on the wall. He's starting to understand that he's probably going to lose this revolution. And when he does go down, he doesn't wanna be tried for the atrocities that are now being committed by Syria's military. So he's claiming loudly to the world that he no longer has any control over the military, that the generals are acting entirely on their own, that he is as appalled as the rest of the world by the violence being perpetrated by his military. In this way, I believe, he hopes to avoid the same fate that befell the other heads of other corrupt regimes in the area: Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Gaddafi. Can't say I blame him for that one. If I just got caught red-handed torturing cats, I'd sure try and blame it on the other kids that were with me. I don't think it'll do him much good though. We all know Assad is firmly in control of his government and his military, with the exception of a few isolated units that have rebelled rather than take innocent lives. What's more, I seriously doubt that Syria's generals would quietly put their heads in the hangman's noose for Assad. No, they'll squeal like pigs when Syria's citizens finally overthrow them and the trials begin. At that day, I don't think Assad will get away with trying to sidestep his culpability in the bloodshed, especially when there's so much blood on his hands.
the results of the military's apparently unauthorized attacked on the city of Hama. I'd like to know - and I'm sure a lot of other people would too - if he isn't in control of Syria's armed forces, then who is? What is sounds like to me - and I'm no foreign policy expert or anything - that Bashar Assad is trying to position himself for what's going to happen after is inevitable fall from power. Old Assad is beginning to see the handwriting on the wall. He's starting to understand that he's probably going to lose this revolution. And when he does go down, he doesn't wanna be tried for the atrocities that are now being committed by Syria's military. So he's claiming loudly to the world that he no longer has any control over the military, that the generals are acting entirely on their own, that he is as appalled as the rest of the world by the violence being perpetrated by his military. In this way, I believe, he hopes to avoid the same fate that befell the other heads of other corrupt regimes in the area: Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Gaddafi. Can't say I blame him for that one. If I just got caught red-handed torturing cats, I'd sure try and blame it on the other kids that were with me. I don't think it'll do him much good though. We all know Assad is firmly in control of his government and his military, with the exception of a few isolated units that have rebelled rather than take innocent lives. What's more, I seriously doubt that Syria's generals would quietly put their heads in the hangman's noose for Assad. No, they'll squeal like pigs when Syria's citizens finally overthrow them and the trials begin. At that day, I don't think Assad will get away with trying to sidestep his culpability in the bloodshed, especially when there's so much blood on his hands.
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