Santiago Alba Rico — The role and bias of this geopolitical obsession becomes very clear as soon as one compares the different attitudes toward Palestine and Syria.
But Assadist western leftists never made any sense at all.
“West Bad, therefore, anyone against the West, Good”
They’ll fall over themselves to defend the ultratheocratic Houthis and even the Islamic Republic of Iran, whilst simultaneously claiming that they only supported Assad because his ‘secular’ regime was better than the dreaded possibility of a theocracy.
The kind of ‘leftists’ who supported Assad have no real principles.
“West Bad, therefore, anyone against the West, Good”
They’ll fall over themselves to defend the ultratheocratic Houthis and even the Islamic Republic of Iran, whilst simultaneously claiming that they only supported Assad because his ‘secular’ regime was better than the dreaded possibility of a theocracy.
The kind of ‘leftists’ who supported Assad have no real principles.