[Paine in the Neck]

He could have either crushed the Arab Spring in his country like a bug ...

Well, except for that bit where Obama's myrmidons arranged for billion$ in weapons and equipment to go to the Arab Spring "freedom fighters".

[Bluewater2015]

He could have either crushed the Arab Spring in his country like a bug ...
Well, except for that bit where Obama’s myrmidons arranged for billion$ in weapons and equipment to go to the Arab Spring “freedom fighters”.

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I meant squashed it like a bug RIGHT AWAY. That’s what Hafez would have done, like he did with that uprising in Hama years ago when he massacred 30,000 people there and leveled the city because folks were getting uppity. It took Zero a while to get off the line, after all.