A GOOD COMMENT
By Maysaloon
".....This is the key fallacy at the heart of any argument made by supporters of Assad
when they cite issues of state sovereignty. Fundamentally there is no state in
such countries. A state in the modern sense must be operate under the rule of
law and not be that law, in effect such countries are under the rule of state
and not the rule of law. This is not to say that Western countries are paragons
of such state models, but only a fool would morally equate the behavior of such
governments with the actions of a country like Syria, Saddam or Maliki's Iraq,
or Iran. When people express their outrage at the West, you will usually find
that the source of much of their anger is the foreign policy of such countries,
and not the domestic politics. Yet for those who claim to be anti-imperialists,
we find the reverse. It is the foreign policy of countries such as Iran and
Syria which is the basis of their support, but strangely there is very little
concern with domestic politics and freedom of expression. Ironically the loudest
and most outspoken of these anti-imperialists also live in the West. So what
should one make of this? A paradox emerges that cannot be ignored, and it
fundamentally undermines even the most eloquent arguments in support of Assad's
regime......"
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