The Syria regime is “ filling the coffers of the State, making high-ranking members of the power structure even richer and preventing the return of the pariahs – political opponents, actual or alleged.” Systematic politico-financial purge
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51