IdleRich
IdleRich
Broadly agree with this but I think it's a bit much to say that he has "undermined a revolutionary movement". I'm with Padraig, the twittering and facebooking etc don't make the revolution and for the same reason they can't destroy it either. Not to say that he hasn't possibly endangered individuals or further confused understanding between people in the West and those in the Middle East."But if MacMaster is experiencing any pain, he brought it upon himself by hatching a scheme to gain attention and recognition for his writing (as one of his friends acknowledged) that ended up undermining a revolutionary movement already confronted with brutal state repression. MacMaster’s family and friends should have told him the hard truth, but they don’t seem to know what it is. Instead, they impulsively coddled him and praised his actions. For all they seem to know, Syria is a far away place filled with a faceless “oppressed population.” So who are the “liberal Orientalists?” And to what degree did MacMaster share their sensibilities?"