The Syrian Civil War Is Decided
Assad has won the war, but that doesn't mean the war is over.
by Charles Glass
October 26, 2017
Syrian President Bashar al Assad must have taken a lesson or two from the master American politician, late Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. When Chicago police beat and abused young anti-war demonstrators during the Democratic National Convention in 1968, the party establishment turned against the Windy City's leading official, just as in 2011 much of the world condemned al Assad's treatment of anti-government protesters. Liberals called Daley a fascist then; later, U.S. politicians labeled al Assad a tyrant.
Many Democrats called for Daley's resignation in 1968, but Chicago voters gave "Hizzoner" an unprecedented fifth term in April 1971 by a majority of 70 percent. At a press conference the next day, one journalist reminded Daley about the leading Democrats who had condemned him in 1968 — Ted Kennedy, George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie, among others. The reporter then asked, as legendary Chicago newspaperman Mike Royko wrote in his biogr…
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