What Could Have Been for Bashar

When you look back at things you realize so much could have gone differently, and it would have all been so much better if people did certain things rather than what they already have done. If only people can see the consequences of their actions.. I was just thinking to myself, if Bashar Al Assad took a different path to the one he choose, how would have things been different? If he actually listened to the people, implemented proper and real reforms, if he gave people their rights and treated the situation in Dera'a differently, for example if he brought those that were responsible for detaining and torturing the children in Dera'a to Trial, things wouldn't have been where they are now. Instead of being viewed as a criminal and murder by Syrians and a tyrannical and oppressive leader by the rest of the world he would have been viewed as the only president in the Arab world that could really make a difference, the president that the people of the region have been waiting for. His popularity in Syria and the 'Arab World' would have increased to unprecedented levels for any Arab leader in our contemporary history. In contrast, Bashar and his regime were truly viewed as the only regime that was standing by the rights of the people of the region and fighting for the aspirations and rights of Arabs and Palestine. I can almost certainly say that if he implemented reform by changing the constitution and erasing the 8th article of it, if he truly implemented a law for the formation of political parties and held free and fair elections and worked on the next two years in implementing serious social and economical reform he would have not only won (fairly) the elections in two years time, but he would have probably won the elections for years to come. Instead Bashar and his regime took the longer version of the same wrong path that other Arab dictators have taken. How and when this regime will fall all now depends on a number of factors, mainly where the loyalty of the members of his regime (especially the military) will shift to in the coming days; I say days knowing that I'm being very optimistic. What a chance he has been given, an opportunity, instead this regime dealt with it not as an opportunity but as a threat that needs to be dealt with by force.