Syria Burning

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What are the origins of the Syrian crisis, and why did no one do anything to stop it Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil war has claimed in excess of 200,000 lives, with an estimated 8 million Syrians, than a third of the country s population, forced to flee their homes Militant Sunni groups, such as ISIS, have taken control of large swathes of the nation The impact of this catastrophe is now being felt on the streets of Europe and the United States Veteran Middle East expert Charles Glass combines reportage, analysis, and history to provide an accessible overview of the origins and permutations defining the conflict He also gives a powerful argument for why the West has failed to get to grips with the consequences of the crisis. New Download [ Syria Burning ] Author [ Charles Glass ] – kino-fada.fr Practically everyone has gotten Syria wrong horribly, catastrophically wrong This short volume should be required reading for the whole human species The author is remarkably compassionate and even handed especially when you consider he was held hostage by Hezbollah in the eighties , but in the end there s really no getting around just how miserably the world has failed Syria Not a sin of omission, as someone like Samantha Power might have you believe, but a thousand different sins of comm Practically everyone has gotten Syria wrong horribly, catastrophically wrong This short volume should be required reading for the whole human species The author is remarkably compassionate and even handed especially when you consider he was held hostage by Hezbollah in the eighties , but in the end there s really no getting around just how miserably the world has failed Syria Not a sin of omission, as someone like Samantha Power might have you believe, but a thousand different sins of commission Yes, Assad bears primary responsibility for the bloodshed His decision to fire on unarmed demonstrators in 2011 is what precipitated the whole catastrophe That said, the important question is not whether Assad deserves to be president no , but what is lik...There is some historical context in the book that readers might find useful, but there is very little about the present crisis that is either accurate, insightful or unbiased Glass is at pains to conceal the imbalance of forces in Syria and tries to create a false parity by mentioning regime crimes in passing while focusing most of his attention on the opposition s shortcomings He makes the task easier for himself by lumping the opposition together with ISIS a monstrous outfit that terrorizes There is some historical context in the book that readers might find useful, but there is very little about the present crisis that is either accurate, insightful or unbiased Glass is at pains to conceal the imbalance of forces in Syria and tries to create a false parity by m...This is a pretty hard book to review, because on the one hand it contains a lot of important history but on the other side it barely does what it s supposed to do When the Syrian Civil War broke out in 2011 most people expected it to topple the government within the year, if the previous protests of the Arab Spring were to be believed another Middle Eastern country would convert to a democratic process Now the country is six years removed from the beginning of the uprising and after a number o This is a pretty hard book to review, because on the one hand it contains a lot of important history but on the other side it barely does what it s supposed to do When the Syrian Civil War broke out in 2011 most people expected it to topple the government within the year, if the pr...Syria Burning A Short History of a Catastrophe is a very readable and understandable novel Most of us in the U.S don t really know all the details that led up to all the war and refugees The reporting are inadequate, news is bundled swiftly and moves on This book takes the reader back to the history behind the society, religion, past conflicts, leaders, and the other historic content to get a feel for why all this came about The author is very good at explaining these things in a real and Syria Burning A Short History of a Catastrophe is a very readable and understandable novel Most of us in the U.S don t really know all the details that led up to all the war and refugees The reporting are inadequate, news is bundled swiftly and moves on This book takes the reader back to the history behind the society, religion, past conflicts, leaders, and the other historic content to get a fe...An interesting but clearly biased account of the events in Syria the author draws some sort of equivalence between the rebels, Isis and the regime where no such equivalence existsan example of his bias is the fact that he interviews...Getting to the fucking bottom of this now I tend to trust VERSO so checked their catalogue first As the title reads, it s a short history of a catastrophe Way too short for my liking but with many references to other,in depth, books on this fucked up war which I will gladly follow up upon There are a few paras on Syrian class politics and Assad s neoliberal reforms post 2000 to better understand the uprising but, again, way too short to make any real sense of it Otherwise, nothing ne Getting to the fucking bottom of this now I tend to trust VERSO so checked their catalogue first As the title reads, it s a short history of a catastrophe Way too short for my liking but with many references to other,in de...This is a well written book about the war in Syria The author has traveled in Syria and doe a lot of reporting from the middle east.This is good, very good A book that doesn t get bogged down in how unpleasant war is and how it makes people do unpleasant things to one another we know all that already instead Glass goes for the jugular hacking away the words of moral outrage and phony sympathy It will always be the case that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it and the history which is presented here is fascinating No doubt there will be those who object to this approach but Glass forms a clear lin This is good, very good A book that doesn t get bogged down in how unpleasant war is and how it makes people do unpleasant things to one another we know all that already instead Glass goes for the jugular hacking away the words of moral outrage and phony sympathy It will always be the case that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it and the history which is presented here is fascinating No doubt there will be those who object to this approach but Glass forms a clear line between the meddling of France and Britain as they carved new...For someone who has been closely following the development of Syria s unfortunate and traumatic battle between the political agenda, sects, and religious ideologies, this book is a treat with the author s post 2011 experience in traveling war beaten cities of Aleppo and Damascus Charles Glass shows how the current rebellion is both similar and different from the rebellion of the Syrians against British and French occupation during the First World War about a century ago We get to see how, in t For someone who has been closely following the development of Syria s unfortunate and traumatic battle between the political agenda, sects, and religious ideologies, this book is a treat with the author s post 2011 experience in traveling war beaten cities of Aleppo and Damascus Charles Glass shows how the current rebellion is both similar and different from the rebellion of the Syrians against Bri...As is written in a forward to this book by Patrick Cockburn Few events in recent history have been subjected to so much inadequate and partial reporting It is difficult to write sensibly and with balance about a struggle in which all sides, including much of ...

Syria Burning
  • English
  • 04 April 2017
  • Paperback
  • 192 pages
  • 1784785164
  • Charles Glass
  • Syria Burning