NP - Learn Your Syria

[Joe Allonby]

Little mention of Baathism until the last paragraph. Western media and
the general population seem so hung up on the various scary religious
factions in the Middle East that they ignore the pan-Arabic
nationalist and nominally socialist movement that has dominated much
of Arab politics for the last eighty years or so.


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:01 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.juancole.com/2013/09/americans-theyre-threaten.html
>
> Ambrose Bierce is said to be the author of the saying “War is God’s way of
> teaching Americans geography.” Despite the vigorous national debate about
> intervening in Syria, there is some reason to think that most Americans
> could not find it on a map. Here are some key points about Syria that this
> blog has been trying to underline.