Quote Originally Posted by Brenus View Post
I wanted just to underline that written media are changing a bit the narrative.
Google is awful at translation, unfortunately...
What she is saying is the media reading of the crisis is based on only 2 uniques sources, both of them nor reliable nor objective and news-agencies repeating eachothers.
She is saying that in Syria, the most urgent task of Europe and US was not to deal with Islamist Extremist but to bring Assad down, at what ever cost, and expel Russia from the region.
So, they legitimised islamic terrorists groups under the label of "rebels, forgetting about children enrolment in their ranks, massacres, tortures and extortions.
She said there is no more moderate opposition in Syria and we went from a Civil War in Syria to a war against Syria (invasion of turkish troops, and finances from Arabs Monarchies)
At no moment she said that IS was made a scapegoat. She said that the most of the opposition is like IS. And she finishes on the duty to go back to the "realpolitik" and need to respect borders as they are a good tools/frame for resolving crisis than moralism (that she qualifies as cynical) pretending working for democracy...
Acknowledgment of different interest by various parties....
The translation was enough to get all that.

As for "scapegoat":

pas seulement celle de Daech, bouc-émissaire spectaculaire
She calls it scapegoat by comparison to the other groups, to which I raised my complaint on her goal of countering the " l'abcès djihadiste" and "péril commun", namely that scapegoating the other evil awful groups is wrongfooted.