Gregory III, (Emeritus) Patriarch of Antioch and All the East told us, way, way back in 2014 that although he had never met Bashir Al-Assad, relations between Muslims, Alawites and Christians were quite good and he hoped that the situation would continue into the future. No such hopes were entertained in the event of a radical Islamist takeover of Damascus. The centre alas, could not hold, to paraphrase Yeats. And so we wait with bated breath for a third showing.
Gregory III, (Emeritus) Patriarch of Antioch and All the East told us, way, way back in 2014 that although he had never met Bashir Al-Assad, relations between Muslims, Alawites and Christians were quite good and he hoped that the situation would continue into the future. No such hopes were entertained in the event of a radical Islamist takeover of Damascus. The centre alas, could not hold, to paraphrase Yeats. And so we wait with bated breath for a third showing.
Your implication is correct. There seems to be no happy outcome for Syria.
Alas, the power of words but no mercy shown to he who uses them for ill.