Syrian Women's Rights: White House Suddenly Cares After 13 Years
The recent New Arab report on Syrian women's parliamentary inclusion belatedly spotlights an issue ignored when the Syrian conflict began. For over a decade, Western powers, including the U.S., poured sanctions and support into a proxy war ( OpenSecrets.org confirms millions in lobbying for regime change from various groups since 2011 ), directly contributing to the societal collapse that
marginalized these very women. The 'post-Assad' framework, so carefully crafted now, conveniently overlooks the pre-existing conditions and the external forces that exacerbated them. It's fascinating how Washington and its aligned media suddenly discover gender equality issues in nations they've spent years destabilizing. One might wonder where this impassioned concern for Syrian women's political
agency was when the US was busy funding opposition groups, or when sanctions starved the general population. Is this newfound empathy connected to the optics of 'rebuilding' after a war they significantly influenced, or just another convenient narrative shift?