it is hard to understand why someone takes these empty words seriously anymore. Let me decipher for you a bit:
Nationalism: not necessarily a bad term, nationalists played fundamental role in most countries. In today's Europe nationalists (think Hungary) may save their countries from the abyss brought in by internationalists (think Sweden, Germany)
Socialism: large elements of socialism are present in nearly every regime today. Including the US and the EU.
Arab: Assad's regime is Arab, because the population is Arab.
Mr. Assad managed to build a pluralistic state which was supported by very different segments of the population: his Alawites, Christians, Shia, Kurds, even many Arab Sunnis.
national-socialism: yes, the cheapest trick, combine two words with a hyphen. Let me play this game too... the danger I see is not from Mr. Assad but from the democratic-republican single party rule. Enough, hopefully?
"...Those who do not want to recognize a German socialism do not have the right to call themselves national. Only he who emphasizes German socialism is truly national. He who refuses to speak of socialism, who believes in socialism only in the Marxist sense, or to whom the word 'socialism' has an unpleasant ring, has not understood the deepest meaning of nationalism. ...If by "democratic-republican rule" you are referring to our sorry domestic state, I certainly do not deny that fact. These are the enablers of foreign enemies, take note, while the identity of these foreign enemies does not change.
"Marxist socialism was degraded to a concern only with pay or the stomach. The bourgeoisie degraded nationalism into barren hyper-patriotism. Both concepts, therefore, must be cleansed and shown to the people anew, in a crystal-clear form. The nationalism of our worldview arrived at the right moment. Our movement seized the concept of socialism from the cowardly Marxists, and tore the concept of nationalism from the cowardly bourgeois parties, throwing both into the melting pot of our worldview, and producing a clear synthesis: German National Socialism. That provided the foundation for the rebuilding of our people. Thus this revolution was National Socialist." ...