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From Barcelona to Berlin to Donetsk to Damascus

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Just as the Sunni/Shi'a divide is never referred to as being as much ideological as religious, with the historically down-trodden Shi'a representing the left (think Iranian revolution), Syria under the Shi'a Alawite sect and the Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party, is never acknowledged in the West as the only secular, left-oriented Arab state.

Fareed's third guest was the author of a book on the public's lack of political knowledge in various countries, with the US coming in second only to Italy in terms of ignorance, but he referred to that ignorance only in terms of domestic affairs. If knowledge of foreign countries was not even part of such a survey, is it any no wonder that Western talking heads are so far off the mark?

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