I have noticed that some people who support Palestinian rights and things like the Boycott-Divest-Sanction movement against Israel, are also buying into and sharing the memes about "Assad must go!"
So I think Eva Bartlett's background in the Palestinian issue may be helpful in getting the above activist types to question this abundant anti-Assad propaganda.
Here are some reasons I came up for why "Assad should go!". Hopefully it is obvious that they are tongue-in-cheek:
- When the US removes the leaders of countries, e.g. Saddam Hussein in Iraq, those countries always end up more stable, peaceful and prosperous.
- It’s fine for the US to decide who should be the leader in other sovereign countries, especially when the US find other nations like the UK to support them.
- Pre-emptive war is a good way to solve future potential problems. Assad hasn’t declared any kind of war on the US, but maybe he might in the future?
- Putin and Russia are supporting Assad, so he must be bad!
- Assad is fighting IS, and everybody loves IS.
- Assad is not a team player, he is not supporting the money/oil/power superstructure of the western banking elite.
- Assad was elected, but it must have been a corrupt election process, because Assad was elected.
- Intelligence reveals that he used chemical weapons on his own people, and intelligence is always correct and never used for propaganda purposes to try and justify a war.
