Syria and the anti-imperialism of fools

supporters of the Syrian people’s struggle for democracy and human rights take these attempts to “disappear” Syrians from the world of politics, solidarity, and partnership as quite consistent with the character of the regimes these people so evidently admire. This is the “anti-imperialism” and “leftism” of the unprincipled, of the lazy, and of fools, and only reinforces the dysfunctional international gridlock exhibited in the UN Security Council. We hope that readers of this piece will join us in opposing it.

This is particularly relevant now after the exposure of Edinburgh professor Paul McKeigue, who was in regular contact with someone he thought was a Russian agent (but wasn't), and shared his fervent belief that the CIA and MI6, along with all sorts of Western-funded NGOs, were part of a campaign to blacken the image of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Others in this particularly vile coterie include Bristol University's David Miller, and the appalling Vanessa Beeley.