Politics is the mess that exists between the too-infrequent bursts of statesmanship.
Funny that you rush to the defense of Ba’athism, which is self-admittedly national socialism, never mind an empty comparison to “Islamist values”. The vast majority of Islam in the “Muslim world” in North Africa and Asia Minor features combination of nationalism and socialism.
Where am I defending Baathism? I just point out that it is a single yet relatively stable condition of Arab society and you haven’t proved me wrong.