The Stunning End to a Shocking Half Century

My Entire Life Has Been an Assad Syria, But What Will it Be Now?

I didn’t grow up knowing a lot about Syria, other than the bad stuff about the Yom Kippur War. Syria was the bad guy in that, and that’s all I knew, really. We didn’t learn a lot about them in high school which figures because I went to a tiny rural high school where we focused more on the “big picture” stuff like World War 2 and Gandhi.

There were even…