How Bashar al-Assad Helped to Create Islamic State
Shaping reality to resemble a lie.
June 20, 2017
How Bashar al-Assad Helped to Create Islamic State
Shaping reality to resemble a lie.
When, at the height of the Arab Spring, Syrian troops began gunning down peaceful protestors, the country’s ruler falsely claimed that his victims were terrorists. He then strove to make reality resemble his lie and, as Michael Totten writes, “created a terrorist menace to fight.”
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