lol you know what i meant whichever president came before hafez i just new he was president before assad has considerable foreground of support in which his supports would have freaked out because of the coup they would have claimed instability would arise as assad's supporters are trying to use in their defense what i am trying to say is that although bashar assad had good economic and international policies for syria you should not fear a non baathist potentially being elected syria's economic and international policies won't change iran would still be a major factor in syrian life considering the buisness deals stakes and cultural exchanges the only this that would change are social freedoms and for the better also every country had a revolution and they are still alive today the muslim brotherhood in syria is weak even weaker than the islamist prescence in libya the rebels in libya had support as we see now and yet could hardly take control without nato what chance does the syrian muslim brotherhood have none if anything nonviolent protests weaken the resolve of the muslim brotherhood making them less of an influence in the everyday life of syrians as you know i am pro syria and armenia just not pro assad unlike armenia where people like sargsyan and kopcharyan were democratically elected assad was not no one ran against him because they were not allowed