Aw yay ! I ' m 4 weeks . I ' m super excited for my ultrasound and to hear the heartbeat . <| sep |> That ' s funny because it looks very much like places I ' ve been to in the north . But maybe my memory is deceiving me . <| sep |> You could take this further and say it wasn ' t just that Bashar was too soft , but that he was too quick to want to appeal to Western audiences . Many claim this is one of the reasons Syrian farmers were having such a rough time Westernization of the economy happening too quickly , along with the drought . It is also partially to blame for how Bashar reacted to the conflict . I disagree with alHassan , however . I think a quick conflict where the government cracked down harder would have been what the international crowd needed to intervene . I think Bashar played it perfectly , using his understanding of Western culture and policy to carefully choose when to act . If anything this conflict has made me think more of Bashar , certainly not less . The conflict went on long enough for people to easily see that the US is funding Al Qaeda , and that Hezbollah isn ' t really a terror organization . That alone has strengthened the resistance axis more than anything . Add to that Egypt , Algeria , Pakistan and other states not getting involved , or even giving lip support to Syira shows that the resistance axis can hold up against existential threats .