Maybe, but it would be unfortunate.
I have several friends in Syria. One of my best friends is there right now in fact living half of her time in Toronto and half in Damascus. My impression of Syrians is that they are probably the most western of all the middle eastern states. Without a doubt in fact. They do not tolerate fundamental muslim crap what so ever unlike their other arabic cousins who embrace it.
They are a dictatorship under the son of assad since that's all they seem to understand is some form of royal family. Even my friend who is christian (there is a very large Christian minority in Syria) and very western thinks that a royal family is the best form of government. (We often disagree on this point.)
The only reason that Syria would even be on the radar is that they openly oppose Israel. That therefore puts them at risk from Uncle Sam's wrath.
Syria has NOTHING to do with fundamental muslims or fundamental muslim terror groups. In fact, the Syrians rather harshly squashed a fundamental muslim group in their country a decade ago.
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