Yes, I believe the Ba'ath party started in Syria. They have alot of bad guys over there.
Fox had injured soldiers on just now. When they came back from the segment O'Reilly had noticably (sp?) redder eyes. One of them walked a mile before he realized the extent of his injuries. God bless them all and the fallen servicemen and women.
Yes..
Baath is, I guess, sort of the radical socialist party in princible. I don't care to understand, differentiate, heed or entertain all the fine distinctions between types of socialists anymore than I do of American conservatives. I don't think it matters -- I think moral and ethical princibles matter very much, as do individuals, and in the course of human affairs, allowance for small individual foibles and favors -- the tiniest -- matter as much as grand, ornate and byzantine categorizations of social or political ordering.
Syria is ever been a flux of ruling and rulers, and that flux is not settled by established rules, order and law, such as we have enjoyed in the US and Britan for hundreds of years, It is ad hoc, by coup, by death, by presented opportunity.
The "Baath" party rules as I understand from reading in that it has persisted through changes and so it enjoys a "name branding" maybe more than anything we might ascibe to it by politics. Politics there is connections, and balance of powers, of forces, those forces are family, sect, and international, one's political allies easily cross borders. and positions of power in most of those Arab states can only be held by balancing one's allies and one's enenies as much abroad as at home -- and in the case of Syria, the current ruler may have burdened his Iraqi Baath connections too much for his own good.