Bad Ideas: #SummerinSyria

You would think that in an age of instant communication and social media, old-style propagandists would realize that they need new tactics. SANA, the Syrian Arab News Agency (the Asad regime's official agency), came up with a brilliant (?) idea:

Predictably, the Internet pounced, with people posting pictures of the horrors of the Syrian war. Some examples appear in articles by The Huffington Post, The Washington Post,  and Al Jazeera.