ASG's counter-hegemony unit

Am reading the BBC’s long self-study report on the Arab Spring, as quoted by the Daily Mail here and will be posting later tonight the most relevant excerpts but couldn’t resist posting this remarkable acknowledgment for now about Libya which MUST be applied to Syria too: “No doubt these reports, along with similar and in some cases more directly partisan ones in other media, helped stimulate empathy for the rebel cause among the British public, and thereby to facilitate, if not actually bring about, the NATO intervention – as similar reports had done in northern Iraq as long ago as 1991.”