years ago I was educated by some one from Syria how fucked up Americas position on Syria and Assad is.   I have come not to trust anything opinion oriented that I hear about national leaders...I have found that behind the scenes the reason for the criticism has more to do with rich powerful people making money then the realities of whets going on.  so many times the criticism I see can be said about the same world leaders that are being praised by the media.  most of us trying to figure things out about theses leaders base are opinions on 3rdhand news commentary and because of that manipulation is easy.