Only  a real no paper hero could solve the   problem of mental egoism without an exess of inhumanity:

� �Article Bennet 2005 most societies with strong rules  not used to  democracy  since long times will have this problems.

The crab-walk is certainly not impressing the Bush administration. Bashar al-Assad is in a box. If he makes what the administration would consider concessions, he would confirm its view that only pressure can move him. ''If you give, you convince them that pressure works,'' argues Robert Malley of the International Crisis Group, which is closely monitoring Syria. ''If you don't give, you convince them they need to put more pressure on.'' Flynt Leverett, a former C.I.A. analyst and Bush official and the author of a new book on Assad, ''Inheriting Syria,'' told me that this approach was carrying the Bush administration along a fixed path. ''I think this administration is basically moving in the direction of a regime-change policy in Syria,'' he said. Yet while some administration officials see the regime as ultimately doomed -- unable to reform because to do so would be to surrender the privileges of the ruling clique -- they also see no alternative now for governing Syria. Outside of the Baath Party and the security apparatus, Syria, like Iraq before the war, has no institutions for sustaining national coherence and channeling political expression. If he wants to build a modern Syria, Assad must -- like the American president he confronts -- develop a strategy that breaks radically with his father's arabic world .
Syria  and the arabic world  is  very very old.

It s no excuse , but America  or  other younger States always think its  easy to change old  behavior - Wait and see !  The older US  gets  the more    they will petrify  eventually too .

Their state   has been  founded by  people  going to a new  continent and exticting its  grown population - having a  complete new system  off resources  in their hands  - to expand. 
Now after short time they are not even  able  to handle problems  of support in their own country ,  and what  are those  " old " new rich doing as in most cases , they are not keen in sharing  wealth, as  elsewhere.
 Seem s to be a normal mental defect in most nations of the world.
Even Russia failed  fighting egoism in  heroic attempt  doing social justice for everyone .

Bye  bye !

The prolific writer, who turns 90 this December, dismissed rumors surrounding his health that emerged after he canceled several recent public appearances.
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It gets a bit silly to pretend 90 years old isn't very old and someone that old is somehow cheated if death or illness occurs.