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The Middle East’s despots and the push for democracy synonymous with the Arab Spring make curious bedfellows. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

Why Many Fear Regime Change in Syria February 2, 2012 Victor Mac Diarmid Geopoliticalmonitor.com The Middle East’s despots and the push for democracy synonymous with the Arab Spring make curious bedfellows. And yet, as an Arab League delegation presses the United Nations to support the league’s latest roadmap to peace in Syria, all overt signs suggest that the Arab world’s most ardently anti-democratic leaders have re-cast themselves as champions of Western-style liberal democracy, at least in appearance. But for all the right sounds the Arab League has been making with regards to Syria, and earlier in Libya for that matter, the Arab League’s newfound respect for human rights should be approached with considerable scepticism – scepticism that should also be levelled at many of the more vocal critics of the Syria’s Assad regime. For the full article text please visit: http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/why-many-fear-regime-change-in-syria-4600/