If Assad falls....

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in If Assad falls....:

@Doctor-Phibes said in If Assad falls....:

@jon-nyc said in If Assad falls....:

Doesn’t he have an English wife? Not that he can go there.

But she must be overjoyed.

She's also currently being treated for leukemia, so she's having a great year.

Recovered from breat cancer in 2018.

Acute myeloid leukemia,

Multiple factors influence prognosis in AML, including the presence of specific mutations, and a person with AML's age. In the United States between 2011 and 2016, the median survival of a person with AML was 8.5 months, with the 5 year survival being 24%

Hers is a bit of an odd story, to say the least. She's apparently quite western in outlook, very well-educated, good-looking, and apparently very likeable and charming. And yet there she was, married to that butcher.

[Mik]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/opinion/friedman-syria-iran-future.html

[jon-nyc]

That’s pretty good.

[Mik]

Friedman normally is.

[taiwan_girl]

@Doctor-Phibes said in If Assad falls....:

And yet there she was, married to that butcher.

I think when they first got married, there was pretty high hopes that Bashar al-Assad was going to be different from his father. And he started out with some reforms before falling back into the same things his father did.

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in If Assad falls....:

falling back into the same things his father did.

Someone called him "The world's deadliest ophthalmologist."

[taiwan_girl]

@Mik said in If Assad falls....:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/opinion/friedman-syria-iran-future.html

That was interesting and made good points. Hope that Syria does not turn into another Libya.

[Doctor Phibes]

@taiwan_girl said in If Assad falls....:

And he started out with some reforms before falling back into the same things his father did

I think we all do that. In my case it's buying little electronic gadgets and listening to old BBC radio comedy. In his, it's torturing and murdering thousands of people.

[taiwan_girl]

@Doctor-Phibes

[jon-nyc]

IDF deleting Syrian weaponry.