Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims.
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The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.
The Iraqi people are living better lives now than three year ago, no longer living in fear.
Syria is hosting the most dangerous terrorist organizations.
We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.
The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.
The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
Assad is the president of Syria. He enjoys fairly effective control over his country.
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