Hope suppresses the reality of the future of Syria. Pundits were wrong about the Arab Spring, projecting perspectives into uprisings that weren’t or couldn’t be democratising.
It is happening again. A US delegation that recently visited Damascus and said that it had consulted with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) stretches credulity. The former Syrian government suppressed and removed all the CSOs.
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Philip Eliason was a senior adviser on the Middle East to former foreign minister Julie Bishop.
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