By Joshua Landis
"This video explains to what level Syria has
arrived. Syrian soldiers threaten to beat a young man as they make him chant
that he loves Bashar and accepts him as God. They smile among themselves in self
affirmation and mirth, as they terrify the teenager. He is cowering blindfolded
against a wall. Bashar al-Assad claims his soldiers are fighting
“fundamentalists” even as they impose their religion of al-Assad on terrified
Syrians. The Salafis cannot be worse. This sort of video has become a trope.
They have popped up with terrifying regularity since the first months of the
revolution and express the ideological endgame of the regime. Assad is God."
3 comments:
Joshua Landis is seeing the light after the past 19 months...
But better late than never. His position now is certainly more progressive than many of the old guard "leftists."
assholes
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