Anne Barnards: pearls of daily cliches

Typically, Ms. Anne Barnard merely repeats what her March14 contacts in Lebanon tell her, and they in turn merely repeat the cliches of Saudi propaganda:  "The morning attack occurred at a complex time for Iran. While the country’s support for Mr. Assad drains its popularity in much of the Arab world".  She talks as if the Syrian conflict is arousing much passions in the Arab world.  I have argued for two years against skeptics here that the Arab public is largely turned off by both sides in Syria and that the Syrian "revolution" failed to attract support among Arabs except in the quarters of the Muslim Brotherhood and a handful of Trotskyists--don't ask me why about the latter.  In fact, the new Egyptian Sisi coup "revolution" brought to the fore more sympathy to the Syrian regime, just as the rest of the Arab world express no sympathy whatsoever for the Syrian "revolution" outside of the propaganda apparatuses of the House of Saud and House of Thani.