Serious Video of Syrian Ambush-Can We Stop Calling It A ‘Crackdown?’


New York-With insurgent videos like this surfacing from Syria, it is beyond about time that we discard the term crackdown to describe what is going on in that very troubled Sykes-Picot construct. What is shown in the video-apparently Syrian insurgents relentlessly attacking a regime convoy near the Jordanian border-is a scene from an armed conflict. Time for a change in how we talk about what is going on in that country.

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