Re-framing
reality is a game most dictators and their wives indulge in. It
offers solace, a justification for passing their guilt to others. This is
usually towards people they are supposed to serve and protect. There
is never any doubt in the mind set of these people that citizens are
nothing but a brutish, lowly rabble, lacking appreciation of their
masters and all they have done for them.
Asma al-Assad goes shopping for luxury goods in Paris and London while her dictator husband stays at home to brutalize Syrian resistance to the regime. Facebook 2012 |
Asma
al-Assad's shopping spree for luxury goods in London, Paris and Dubai
while her husband brutally crushes dissent and uprising, is proof of
the delusion which finally grips the dictators circle.
When
it comes to her murder and that of her husband Bashar and his brother
Mahar it possibly may be their very inner circle which administers the
deed if and when the wolves of
the Free Syrian Army get close to the ballroom doors.
That
is price for leaving the real world to dance with a power which drugs
its victim. The Assad trio may continue for some time to bombard Syrian people and inflict suffering. But for
whom, power doth crush has mostly the same outcome. The music stops, the dance is over and and
the drug effect wears off. You are lead away from the dance floor to
meet a man with a gun.