The new heirs in the Arab states
The London-based Middle East daily addressed in an article titled "Can the ruling son be a copy of the father" the question of the new heirs in the Arab states.
The paper said it is mere coincidence that three young rulers in the region, Jordan's King Abdullah Bin al-Hussein, the ruler of Bahrain Sheikh Hamad Bin Issa and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, had graduated from military academies in Britain and they spent most of their practical years in the army.
The paper added: "We do not know what sort of lessons the said gentlemen learned in defense or in fighting areas. What we know is that that every school in Britain teaches before any other thing the supremacy of the law," noting that the Lebanese president said in his constitutional oath speech that he is "under the law rather than being above it."
The paper added that Dr. Bashar al-Assad spent four years at the faculty of medicine in Britain and not in the military academy, noting that Bashar also behaves in his political domain on the grounds of the supremacy of the law and order, first.
The paper added that just one line links those gentlemen, whose ages, experiences and posts are almost identical in "announcing war against corruption, before any other thing."
