What my Syrian friends found most objectionable, when I lived there for five years, was not so much that the Asad clan and their friends made huge amounts of money through running the country as a private business. Rather it was the practical failure of the judicial system to grant people objective justice through a trustworthy set of courts with judges who would be impartial and implement the law fairly.
As the Syrian crisis develops, people like Blair will be rabbiting on about democracy.
Of course it is good if the will of the people is taken seriously by the government, but this will be very hard to implement in Syria, just as it has been in Iraq or Lebanon where people in general vote for people from their own tribal/compact minority background with the aim of getting influence in appointments in the civil service. What Syria could work on more easily is a system of courts which implement the law effectively. There are plenty of Syrian lawyers, and many of them are honest people. There are no Syrian politicians in the european sense of the word. Maybe those who wish Syria well in the governments of the world might start with justice.
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