Why not explore this political party so reviled by Americans that it is, essentially, an enemy? • The Syrian Encyclopedia - Baath Party: http://www.damascus-online.com/se/hist/baath_party.htm • Aoyama, et al. "Spritual Father of the Ba'th - The Ideological and Political Significance of Zaki al-Arsuzi in Arab Nationalist Movements." M.E.S. Series No. 49 (March, 2000). See http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Mes/49.html • Brooks, David. "Saddam's Brain." Weekly Standard, November 11, 2002. See http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/837uvzrs.asp • Wikipedia - Michel Aflaq: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Aflaq • While One Baathist Regime Perishes, the Other Adapts - http://www.argee.net/DefenseWatch/While%20One%20Ba'athist%20Regime%20Perishes,%20the%20Other%20Adapts.htm That last is a weird page. But it's pretty hard to find decent information. The Aoyama link is good but ridiculously deep--much reading, and (gasp!) we're explicitly not allowed to cite it directly, the silly bunts. The first superficial thing that strikes me is that Baathism may be the invention in part of a Western-educated Christian. Perhaps we could call it a casualty of globalism?
