For Power's Sake

The slaughter of Syrian people continues unabated with the usual suspects Russia and China preventing the world as represented by the United Nations from launching a concerted effort to protect innocent life. It is not that these two permanent members of the UN Security Council have ideological similarities with the Assad regime per se. Russia and China have quite disparate objectives from the nominally Ba'athist Syrian ruler but what all three regimes have in common is a lust for absolute rule which gladly countenances gross tyranny.