[McGavin999]

Interesting. Like communism, it sounds good on the drawing board but is totally impossible in real life. Won't work, can't work, didn't work.

[goldstategop]

It was a mixture of pan Arabism and socialism. There is no single Arab people and socialism doesn't work period. No more improbable scheme has ever been devised that went as much against human nature as Baathism did.