... The political and military leadership has embroiled party grass roots, the security forces, and the army, exactly as it has embroiled the entire population in unjustified internal confrontations.

This leadership should assume responsibility for what happened. It should modify its approach and conduct. Every citizen should feel that there is no distinction between a Baathist and a non-Baathist, between a military and a civilian. The Baath should regain its popular character. The party, whose ideology includes codes of conduct pertaining to ethical and national life as well as to struggle, is the same party that should assume its responsibilities, restore its popular dimension, and rebuild links with the masses.

By doing so, it can see things from a wide perspective, not just its own. The Baath Party cannot force people to restrict their vision of life to its own.

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