it is difficult to know anythign about syria, men el te3tim and everything, bas syria has many religions, like lebanon, and instability can make them start killingeach other, and at best in a revolution, they will adopt a system like ours
the current regime should fix the state as the opposition wants, iza fi fased w batalé etc... but al assad's regime is as close as any arab state can get to true independance, the second he walks out the US/israelis will be choosing the syrian leaders.
the bad thing, I think, about dictatorships, is not that the people don't have political freedoms, but it's that some dictators abuse power for their personal profit and go too far, husni mubarak did not need 140 billion dollars etc... and the original point of democracy is "el mou7asabé" the idea that if a political leader disobeys the law, after he is no longer in position he gets thrown in jail. and that if he screws up, the people don't bring him back. clearly we fail at democracy