The New York Times pronounces on destabilisation of the Middle East - World Socialist Web Site
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With Syria’s Western-backed sectarian war for regime-change spilling over into both Iraq and Lebanon between forces that root themselves in divisions between Sunni and Shia, the New York Times has come forward to attribute this nightmare scenario to Washington’s insufficient engagement in the region.
“Power Vacuum in Middle East Lifts Militants,” declares the voice of liberal imperialism in a January 4 article.
The US “newspaper of record” cites fighting in the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi involving “masked gunmen” whom “so many American soldiers died fighting.”