Cecil al-Assad

9 December 2024 16:43 UTC+01:00
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image of Cecil Turtle from Warner Bros' Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons — Bashar al-Assad

photograph of Bashar al-Assad — Cecil Turtle

Syria's fifty-year-old Assad dynasty collapsed in a brief two-week period, following more than a decade of civil war. We thought Bashar al-Assad would never leave, so yay.

Photos of him have always reminded me of Cecil Turtle, famed for his appearances in Warner Bros' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. You never see the two of them together in the same room though, do you?