President al-Sharaa needs who face challenges with him, not cheerleaders

Standing with the President of the Republic at this critical moment is no longer a luxury, a courtesy, or even a negotiable political position. Rather, given the realities and international shifts, it has become a duty for everyone concerned about Syria's future and who wants it to have a foothold in a world that is being reshaped.

But this support does not mean flattery, covering up mistakes, or reproducing the culture of tyranny with modernized slogans. It simply means conscious engagement in the process of reconstruction, each from their own position.

Those with experience must advise.

Those with the platform must engage in dialogue.

Those with power must protect, not blackmail.

The President faces complex battles, the most dangerous of which are not only the remnants of the past who seek to return under new guises, nor the princes of chaos who thrive on the collapse of institutions. Rather, what might be called the "deep current within the modern state"—a current that is unwilling to embrace change and rejects any vision beyond the "small sector" it controls.

This movement doesn't take up arms, but it postpones decisions.

It doesn't publicly oppose, but it assassinates initiatives with silence, bureaucracy, and skepticism.

Here, we must clearly confront any figure who attempts to say "I am the state," or who exercises power in their own name without justification, or who imposes their decisions as if they were orders from a group's leader. There is no place for private detention centers or for supra-constitutional loyalties.

We are all in the same boat: toward renewal, not inheritance; toward the state, not feudalism; toward supporting the president, not to consolidate his power, but so that he can overcome the past, with its remnants... and its "extremists" as well.

The opportunity is before us: either we seize it with awareness and courage, or we will regret later the potential we have squandered that could have created a different future.

Editor-in-Chief - Zaman Al-Wasl