Syria’s Bloody Dictator Has Fallen
In 2013, I met a 12-year-old Syrian girl who had been shot in the back by a government sniper near Aleppo. Her name was Maysaa, and she was paralyzed from the waist down.
“Am I a terrorist? Are all of the children they kill terrorists?” she asked, recuperating in an improvised medical facility on her way to a Turkish hospital.
Despite her pain, she was overcome with anger, and she cursed the man responsible. “Children are being torn to pieces. May God tear Bashar al-Assad and his children to pieces.”
Curses like Maysaa’s are seeds that took root in Syria’s blood-soaked soil and have stubbornly grown. Now, more than a decade later, they are bearing fruit.
The murderous tyrant who presided over the collapse of Syria, amid a brutal civil war, has finally fallen.
