Syria's middle class can defeat Bashar al-Assad | Ahmed Hussein | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Syria's middle class can defeat Bashar al-Assad | Ahmed Hussein | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "In an interview with the Wall Street Journal at the end of January, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad claimed he was immune from the pressures of the pro-democracy revolutions sweeping the Middle East because his regime was 'very closely linked to the beliefs of the people'. How mistaken he was. The beliefs of the regime and the Syrian people could not be further apart."