What do you try to control if you want to keep the lid on popular demands for democracy? Information, of course. This one surely merits a resounding heh:
Syrian President Bashar Assad has said the media and technological revolution sweeping the region and the world is helping his country's foes to undermine and crush the Arab identity.Read on. This is particularly good:
Focusing on the swirl of modern information and the huge influx of ideas to the region, Assad said that development was being exploited by what he said were the region's enemies.Heh heh heh. (Thanks: D.)