On Syrian regime

I am not amused a bit by people (especially in the West but also in the Arab world) who pose as champions of the Syrian people and sudden opponents of the Syrian regime.  On this, I take no sermons and won't allow sudden supporters of the Syrian people (sudden as when Israel gave license and permission) to lecture or hector on the subject.  One of my first political activism was in 1976 (I was 16) in support of radical leftists who launched a guerrilla warfare against the Syrian Army in Lebanon, following the Syrian military intervention in support of the Phalanges and to crush the Leftist-PLO coalition.  Furthermore, for much of the 1990s, I was banned from Lebanon because the Syrian regime and its clients in Lebanon deemed that this chapter I wrote for this book was offensive to the "personality" of Hafidh Al-Asad.  As we say in Lebanon, go play in the garden.