Assad’s Speech

The Syrian President has chosen the path of confrontation.

It’s amazing to see those words come out of Bashar’s mouth. The man seems to really believe the nonsense he’s uttering.

Seriously though, things are not looking good at all. As Bashar asks his “friends in Lebanon” to foil “the Zionist plot”, calls our Prime Minister “the stooge of a stooge”, Mehlis secretly leaves Beirut at dawn and the Americans are warning their citizens to stay away from an “unsettled Lebanon”.

What do you make of Bashar’s speech(Arabic)(English)?
Are you confident of things to come?

Update: Joshua Landis has an excellent point-by-point English Translation of Assad’s speech. Landis also has reactions from Syria and from his own family.

Update2: You can listen to Bashar’s speech in Arabic via Alhurra:
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