“The trouble is that the West has been so deluged with stories and lectures and think-tank nonsense about the ghastly Iran and the unfaithful Iraq and the vicious Syria and the frightened Lebanon that it is almost impossible to snap off these delusional pictures and realise that Assad is not alone. That is not to praise Assad or to support his continuation. But it’s real.”
The always excellent and informed Robert Fisk here.
Hold onto your wads for the next Dead Arab Dictator Wankfest for a while tumblin chums.
Odd though, never a Dead African or Asian Dictator Wankfest. What is it about you and the Ayrabs, eh?
Answers on a postcard please.
