Edward Said and the Syrian conflict II

I do find it despicable that someone would resort to claiming that a dead person WOULD HAVE supported his causes had he been alive. That is exactly what Subhi Hadidi did in the Qatari-funded, Al-Quds Al-`Arabi, the other day.  He claimed that Edward Said would have supported the "Syrian revolution".  Comrade Joseph Massad reminded me that the best way to "guess"--if we are to resort to such tactics and methods, which we should not out of respect for the dead--the views of Said toward the Syrian conflict, we can compare his views by analogy to his stance toward Iraq in 1990-91 and in later years.  Said despised the regime of Saddam Husayn but he equally despised and loathed the Iraqi exile opposition of Ahmad Shalabi and Kanan Makiyya.  There is no guessing there.  Said most likely would have despised the Syrian regime and the Saudi-supported Syrian exile opposition and "revolution", unless you think that Said would have sympathized with the Bin Ladenites of the glorious Syrian "revolution".