When CNN went to Syria for a day last week they were assigned minders.
When the minders were present and cameras running the Syrians praised their government.
When the cameras were off and enterprising journalists managed to speak with the citizens privately, the citizens described their country as a dictatorship and spoke admiringly of the Lebanese protests.
I pray that in the not too distant future those Syrians are able to throw off their shackles, too.
Well the disgusting Sunni Islamist may pray the Baathists are overthrown but the Christians and moderate secular Muslims won't.