REPORTER: What’s left of international law?
CLARK: If Saddam Hussein had been like Mubarak and done what the United States asked--told him to do, he would have been a present personality in the U.S. media. We’d have thought, hey, what nice people, what a great guy, and all that. But because he wouldn’t do what the United States wanted, he had to be taken out.
REPORTER: Is Assad destined for the same treatment?
CLARK: President Assad is a gentle person.
REPORTER: There are a lot of people who would really disagree with the statement you just said, that President Assad is a gentle person.
CLARK: I’m not sure, there are a lot of people that want the public to disagree. But if you look at his history; he left home, he went to England, he studied how to take care of people’s eyes, he’s interested in medicine and healing.
REPORTER: Right now, there’s no healing really taking place in Syria.
CLARK: Right now, he’s trying to save his country as he sees it. That’s a rough business if you’ve got people shooting at you.