Call this A Tale of Two Chitties. One can even start this lament with, “It was the worst of times, and it was the even-worster of times.” After remaining silent since bugging out of the country that his family ran as a fiefdom for over 50 years, Bashar al-Assad has finally released a statement from exile.
It’s exactly as self-serving and whiny as you’d expect. Assad paints himself as a bastion of courage against “terrorism” while inexplicably referring to himself in the third person at times:
I reaffirm that the person who, from the very first day of the war, refused to barter the salvation of his nation for personal gain, or to compromise his people in exchange for numerous offers and enticements is the same person who stood alongside the officers and soldiers of the army on the front lines, just meters from terrorists in the most dangerous and intense…
