But this will not change the position of those liberals and leftists who have supported the Syrian regime or have remained silent. The formers because they prefer a "secular", "Western-oriented", "liberal" (and neoliberal) man (and his wife) to those long-bearded men. The latters who think that there are a few progressive elements in the Syrian regime worth defending, and the Russian state, is a counter balance to western imeprialism. War crimes evidence in Syria 'overwhelming'
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51