President Assad’s televised address was only his third public speech since the country’s uprising began in March.
“What is happening today has nothing to do with reform, it has to do with vandalism,” Assad told a crowd of supporters at Damascus University. “There can be no development without stability, and no reform through vandalism. We have to isolate the saboteurs.”
He warned that the country’s economy was in trouble.
How like Mubarrak he sounds, just before he departed, and chillingly like Gaddaffi. Prayers for Syria, and for its Christians.
And like Hitler, who managed to stick around for too long.