He gotta start controling the sunni clerics and it is what he is doing now as it looks like.
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Why not,because things turned out so well for Turkey that 100 years after Ataturk the country is almost an Islamic dictatorship.
If we have learnt something from history is that you can’t suppress religion,especially a religion that represents the majority of the population. What Assad can do,throw in jail millions of Sunnis?
It's time Syrians to return home.
Of course,marginalization of whole rural areas by Assad and the drought that hit Syria in 2007 and resulted in millions of rural unemployed Syrians moving to the cities are among the most important factors of the civil war,it has a sectarian nature of course,but do you think that if the average Syrian lived well would really care about the background of Assad?
All I know is that the placed where the protests started like Aleppo and Daara were actually economix strongholds.
The arab spring wasnt economic related but politically by people in the backround.
Look what happend prior to the arab spring especially in regards to syria.
Friendship pipeline
Syria and its central bank
Sudden US involvement in all countries of the Arab Spring.
Call it a conspiracy, but I think it play a role.