Too Much or Not Enough?

President Bashar Assad’s job of holding Syria together is an almost impossible balancing act. Although his reforms are too limited for the younger generation, who are calling for both political and economic freedom, as far as the old established families are concerned, he has already gone too far.

…So how long should it take to achieve progress? At least from an economic point of view, that is an easy question to answer: the country has until the oil runs out.