Syria, the Arab Revolutions and the 'War on Terror'
Submitted on July 28, 2012
By Alex Snowdon - July 27, 2012
Those on the left...who have been...sympathetic to the Gaddafi and Assad regimes, seeing them as a progressive bulwark against Western imperialism, may be consistent opponents of the U.S.-led 'war on terror,' but they don't understand the immensely positive and liberating role of the Arab revolutions...There are others on the left who have it the other way around...[T]hey underestimate the capacity of Western intervention to play an important role in the region...They fail to fully locate developments inside Syria in a larger political context.
