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The whole thing is just damned depressing.... but people have to know so much of this is tribal - just like in many other countries. Under the "first world style" trappings are Shia and Sunni tribes. Assad's people are a tribe that was treated like dirt in the last century until the French occupation used them in the military to keep the majority under control. Assad's people used that leverage (the military) to attain power in the first place.
Not defending Assad there, just explaining how a tribe that was considered almost a cult variation of Islam took power originally.
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