Glavin: In Syria – and everywhere else – champions of liberal democracy have failed terribly

It was seven years ago this month that the bright hopes of a nonviolent, democratic revolution erupted in people singing and marching peacefully in the streets of Syria. Since then, seven decades’ worth of solemn UN covenants, international treaties and binding conventions have gone up in flames in the hell hole of corpse heaps, concentration camps and ruined cities that the Baathist mass murderer Bashar Assad has been permitted to make of his country.
Out of a population of 22 million peo