At stake, a Damascus bond – Why fate of uprising will have a bearing on many Indians

K.P. NAYAR IN DAMASCUS 3/3/2012 Much more is at stake for the people of India than for their government in New Delhi in the current uprising against Syria’s Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party and the country’s President, Bashar al Assad. If Assad is overwhelmed by the ongoing rebellion against him, it may be the end of multiple strands of centuries-long people-to-people contacts between Syria and India, going by the experience of the Arab Spring in Egypt or the American-imposed “liberation” of Iraq from the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein