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Yo Fred. Hope all is well with you and yours down under. Soon you will enter spring. I'm sure that shall please your soul.
The Assad family where pretty clever over the past fifty or so years to keep things in place, as your well aware. A little allegiance, here, a little there, a lot of Soviet techniques to keep the folks in line, some minor bloody put downs from any group who dared to challenge them, went a long way to keep them in power over the years. I suspect a lot of those that reach the cream level at the top are not so Hell bent on specific differences within the various sects in Islam.
But this one is a bit of a puzzle to a small extent for me. I have to admit I know nothing about this particular guy other then what we have read over the past hours about him from different sources.
I'm sure he will be somewhat protected in Jordan. He got out alive.

Someone identified him as a sunni. If he is, he was a man in the wrong place and at the wrong time if he thinks his co-religionists are winning. He was serving the infidel master. Alawites are infidels.
And if he’s right, woe betide the christian community in Syria.
But I can’t see the Russians allowing the ‘rebel’ scum take the country over.

Spring sprung two days ago, it’s wonderful...