Posted on 05/28/2015 8:14:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
From their Instagram feeds they appear to be just like other young people enjoying the summer time: backflipping into water, chilling at a pool bar, basking in a sundrenched meadow. But the photos belong to a group of Syrians who have maintained their privileged lives, despite the war ravaging their country.
They’re Alawites, the country’s minority sect and its elite. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and many in his ruling government belong to the group, which comes from a strand of Shiite Islam. They dwell in Tartous and Latakia, perched on the Meditteranean on the Syrian coast, where there are few scenes of war or famine or retribution from the Assad regime to haunt them. Still, some insist the war is never far away.
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I was actually vaguely recalling that article while reading this one, and before reading your original comment. Yes, virtually identical. The ‘rich syrians’ partying while civil war rages, complete with pool party photo.
Isn’t propaganda great? And most people would never realize this happened. Gee...I wonder how many times this happens a week...
/Normie, ex-reporter
No I meant with other issue articles/different subjects. I mean we all know the Global warming rehashes but you just know that some of the less obvious stuff got a couple word changes and a new byline for another trip through the public mind. Familiarity breeds acceptance.
They write the same type of articles about whatever all the time but I wonder how many are so blatant.
There were a lot of recycled news articles on the Iraq insurgency and on the Israeli move into Lebanon some years while back.
It's not that you can't understand it. You, like just about everyone else, can't accept it. Call it normalcy bias if you like.
The normal state of the moslem world seems to be chaotic. The US, under the sway of its communist, moslem president, has entered this chaos. The result is more chaos.
Chaos is, seemingly, the desired result. Consider: Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Ferguson, Baltimore. Chaos reigns. Policy aims have been achieved. What is next is anybody's guess.
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock...
That blonde looks Euro, no?
Most likely a Russian.
Still worthy of a repost.
Kind of a fatalistic point of view. Why fight for a lost cause. Live it up, and then when everyone else perishes, perish too.
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