It had one of the highest university enrolment of women in universities. Free healthcare and dental care.
Syria’s cardinal sin and unpardonable crime was refusing to accept Israel’s occupational and then annexation of its Golan Heights.
Brutality has nothing to do with it (witness the red carpet treatment of Saudi Arabia and Egypt). Washington has no problem with vicious dictators. It is disobedient ones it cannot tolerate.
Plenty of other countries refused to accept Israel's occupation and annexation of the Golan Heights but somehow managed not to sink into permanent warfare. Syria itself occupied a large segment of Lebanon until it had to give it up, most unwillingly. There must be other explanations. I agree that journalists label 'complex' situations they either do not know much about or do not feel at liberty talking about. I doubt Golan Heights is one of those situations. So, what else might have ailed Syria?
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Syria feel apart when the movement called the "Arab Spring" arrived. Nothing about the Arab Spring had to do with Israel or the Golan Heights. The Arab Spring was about citizens trying to obtain some kind of dignity, respect, and rights in the authoritarian nations of the Arab League.
Nope, not Israel's fault.
