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In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, the ruling pigs led by Napoleon constantly rewrote history in order to justify and reinforce their own continuing power. The rewriting by the western powers of the history of the ongoing conflict in Syria leaps out of Orwell....Historical backgrounder.India PunchlineTen years on, Syria is almost destroyed. Who’s to blame?M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service
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In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, the ruling pigs led by Napoleon constantly rewrote history in order to justify and reinforce their own continuing power. The rewriting by the western powers of the history of the ongoing conflict in Syria leaps out of Orwell....Historical backgrounder.India PunchlineTen years on, Syria is almost destroyed. Who’s to blame?M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service
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In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, the ruling pigs led by Napoleon constantly rewrote history in order to justify and reinforce their own continuing power. The rewriting by the western powers of the history of the ongoing conflict in Syria leaps out of Orwell....
Historical backgrounder.
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Ten years on, Syria is almost destroyed. Who’s to blame?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service