The reform projects announced by the Syrian authorities are supported by Russia, China, Iran, the Lebanese government, and Hezbollah. For some reason, the Syrians are disregarding lifting the emergency status, revoking the Supreme State Security Court, and issuing the media and parties laws. In other words, they are disregarding all the things that might constitute a legal basis for a pluralistic system with a minimal level of independence and balance between the authorities, especially as President Bashar al-Assad had asserted that the Constitution will be subjected to many amendments. Russia, Iran, and the rest of the allies are relying on the success of the reforms. Indeed, they are using them as pretexts in order to abstain from imposing additional international sanctions on the Syrian regime, which is proceeding to kill the civilian protestors. These countries are also calling for granting Al-Assad enough time and the opportunity to implement his promises of reform. The requested opportunity definitely requires that the protests be halted and that the regime be allowed to carry on with its cleansing of the country from the armed gangs. The wisdom behind that is that reform cannot possibly be launched at a time where groups affiliated with the outside are carrying out terrorist acts. The relevance of this pretext is pushing in the direction of overlooking the needs for reform. Indeed, how can the state launch a dialogue and a reform movement when there are terrorist actions, killings, and dismemberments being carried by armed men flooding Syria from the outside, or armed men being bought by the enemies among the Syrian society's perverts and scum (according to the statements of several commentators who support the regime)? Sound logic implies that vanquishing the armed attacks is more important than the democratization of public life in the country. And the pinnacle of sound logic consists of the statements of the regime's officials and statistics concerning the number of the dead Syrian victims. During her visit to Moscow, the media consultant of the Syrian presidency indicated that there are equal numbers of dead victims among the troops and the insurgents. Anyone who is not an army victim is an insurgent. This is because the ill bilateral logic is governing the regime's vision of all the world's incidents. Indeed, those who are not with us are against us regardless of whether they are babies, women, or young men who were killed under the torture of the hell soldiers. The Syrians no longer believe the tales produced by this bilateral logic, which is driving the Syrian regime and which aims at igniting the fire of a civil war. Indeed, the tales on the armed gangs lack persuasion and cohesion; and the support of the “world's free and honest ones” of the Syrian regime is raising questions around the definition of the so-called “free and honest ones.” The main problem currently facing Al-Assad is the unavailability of a public to support the tales invented by the security services. Although the “reforms” carried out by the Syrian president during the past six months exceed all his steps towards modernization and reform during the eleven years that he spent in power, these reforms have suffered from a structural defect since the moment they were announced: the reforms lack credibility. Indeed, all the legal measures were void of any tangible effect be it on the level of restraining the security services and preventing them from attacking and killing people; or on the level of modifying the pattern of the services' work from terrorizing citizens and humiliating them in order to preserve the regime and its symbols, to preserving the security of the citizens and to protect them against any violations no matter what their source is. The same applies for the judiciary sector, the parties, the protests, and the media. The absence of a public that supports reforms is nothing but the result of the long years of estrangement that the authorities practiced against the citizens and the civil society (only ruins of the civil society remain in Syria). The public is responding by abstaining from showing its support whenever the regime needs it. The regime has succeeded in building a Syria that resembles it: a Syria with no Syrians.
