Amir Haji-Akbari
hajiakbari.bsky.social
Amir Haji-Akbari
@hajiakbari.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University. Dad. Husband. Living in a crazy world.
I remember my despair at the fall of Aleppo in December 2016 and back then, I thought I will not live to see the day when Assad falls & Syria is liberated. Thankfully, I was wrong & I can finally live the joy of a liberated Syria.
December 8, 2024 at 4:16 AM
from "antiwar" activists who became Assad apologists, to foreign policy "experts" who facilitated democratic backsliding by rationalizing appeasement of likes of Assad, Khamenei & Putin.
December 8, 2024 at 4:16 AM
This was primarily what led Obama to walk back his now-infamous redline & tacitly prop up Assad by infusing billions of dollars into Iran's coffers to run its war machine in the region. Thankfully, all these people will forever live in infamy,
December 8, 2024 at 4:16 AM
It also exposed the hollowness & absurdity of the prevailing foreign policy consensus on the left, which prizes isolationism and avoiding war above all and excuses war crimes committed by "anti-imperialist" dictators aligned with the former Eastern bloc.
December 8, 2024 at 4:16 AM
destruction brought about by my own country to Syria, but also exposed the hypocrisy & moral bankruptcy of many "democracy activists" in Iran who let their animosity towards Arabs & Sunni Muslims make them apologists for genocide & war crimes.
December 8, 2024 at 4:16 AM