Syria Open to Cease Fire?

Bashar Al-Assad and wife Asmaa Al-Assad

It’s been a year since protest in Syria started and as time moved on, that once nonviolent protest turned into Genocide, as President Al-Assad did not want to be defy. It’s been said, that Bashar Al-Assad may have cheated on his wife, but he has been raping Syria for the better of part of 10 years.  Now with the United Arab league and other international organizations heavily involved and demanding this mass murder at the hands of the Syrian government --stop, it seems that Al-Assad just may be ready to meet them half way, but don’t get too excited, there is a catch to his sudden compromise.



The Syrian government today, says it is ready for a cease-fire, but they want guarantees  (not surprising).They are willing to put down their weapons, if their opponents put theirs down first. Like Mubarak and Kaddafi -it’s not about the people, but about egos. Al-Assad is a sinking ship, and before we know it he will be gone, but he is not going down without a fight and if that means murdering a good chunk of the Syrian people, then he has absolutely no problem doing that. Although this cease-fire is unlikely, it is the absolute first sign of cooperation from the Syrian government in the last year. The government has asked diplomats to make sure their guarantees are met, before any sign of compromise emerges on their side. The “guarantees” that armed attacks on the government would stop, and that neighboring countries halt arms trafficking into Syria.

What does all of this really mean? It seems that Syria has gotten to the point of being isolated, although they are being backed by Russian and Iran, that’s just it. This Islamic country is being left high and dry by its other Muslim countries, including the Six Gulf Arab states, who on Thursday said they would shut down their embassies in Syria, making good on the Gulf Cooperation Council of nations' February pledge to close their missions. Italy also on Wednesday closed its embassy in Damascus.


However, is Al-Assad really scared of the world abandoning him or is this just part of a master plan? I would like to think that he does have some sort of conscience, and the simple fact that close to 8,000 people have died because of him and his government, he is ready to step aside and let the voices of the Syrian people be heard. But sadly, like I said earlier, it is about ego. To have just an ordinary citizen take down any leader with power and might  will not be the way any corrupt leader wants his story written in the history books. Mubarak may as well be in a coma, because after ruling for such a long time and having to step down because “ordinary people” demanded it-- is just absurd, it sent him to a hospital bed. Kaddafi went into hiding, and it got him killed, because no one man or group was going to take any of them down, on thier own turf. But this is not just a Muslim-Middle East way of thinking; anyone with power does not want to leave at the hands and terms of any one person, but him/herself--it is just the human way of thinking. Whether or not a cease-fire comes about, time will only tell, personally it may not happen, because Al-Assad is asking for something that in the eyes of the opponents may very well be a trap. A trap, that they are ready to throw back in his face and demand he step down.