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That same year, Syria was added to the then newly created US list of state sponsors of terror (it is the only one of the original designees to remain on the list to this day). Henry Kissinger’s well-known dictum, “you can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria,” was proven wrong with the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1979. He also failed in his lifelong ambition to assert Syria’s centrality in regional affairs. Though his father was often lauded for his strategic and diplomatic acumen, by the time Hafez al-Assad died in June 2000, he had achieved little more than overseeing his country’s drift into irrelevance. It also raises a question made all the more relevant by the past decade’s upheaval: what, precisely, have fifty years of Assadist rule accomplished? When Bashar al-Assad ascended to power at the age of thirty-four-his path paved by a docile parliament that hurriedly amended the constitution to lower the minimum age for the presidency-he inherited a stagnant backwater of a country. The exceptional longevity of the Assad regimes is noteworthy. In all three cases, sons who inherited their presidencies have prevailed in multiple, if highly suspect, elections and, as of this writing, remain in power. Of these, there are only three countries in the world in which father-son duos have held the presidency uninterrupted for a half century or more: Togo, Gabon, and Syria.

There are fewer than a half-dozen republics in which presidencies have been handed down directly from father to son. When Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father after Hafez’s death in June 2000, Syria entered an exclusive club.

Last of us military tank after henry leaves