Terry Glavin: There s a revolution going on in the Mideast. Why doesn t the West see that? | National Post

In Iraq, where an unprecedented wave of street demonstrations, strikes, marches and occupations broke out last October at least 500 protesters slaughtered and 19,000 wounded the scene was much the same. Long before U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the firing of a Hellfire missile from a Reaper drone circling Baghdad airport in order to eliminate Qassem Soleimani, Iran s notorious terror chief, the pro-democracy uprising had already plunged Iraq into its worst crisis since the U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein 17 years ago.

In Syria, meanwhile, the Khomeinist satrap Bashar al-Assad and the Russian air force continued their immolation of the towns and cities of Idlib this week. Idlib is the last governorate of Syria outside regime control, and its conquest is the bloody denouement to what began as a pro-democracy uprising in 2011. At least 300,000 Syrians have been rendered homeless in the past few weeks. The Syrian death toll now exceeds a half million people.

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