tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post5689957830642496774..comments2024-03-26T04:21:43.535-05:00Comments on Free Association: Why Assad Isn't "Our Son of a Bitch"Sheldon Richmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15672237234580563637noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-12805220445485582532015-12-02T12:43:47.826-06:002015-12-02T12:43:47.826-06:00Sorry to come back. One more time.
IT'S NOT A...Sorry to come back. One more time.<br />IT'S NOT A CIVIL WAR.<br />By definition Covert Operations, as they are technically knowm run out of Washington with an army of paramilitaries they have recruited is not a Civil War.<br /><br />it is standard for Washington to claimed as the Covert Op goes on it wishes to bring peace and end the fighting. There are many examples of this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-32136780846216390632015-12-02T12:22:41.099-06:002015-12-02T12:22:41.099-06:00no the Syrian counter revolutionaries openly suppo...no the Syrian counter revolutionaries openly supported Obama' coup and Color Revolution when he gave the order in march 2011. This is what was happening, it was a very major operation.<br />They were to be in the words of one insider to be made slave and you will be enslaved. r economy will be taken over, raw materials and profits exported, you will be required to import everything you need. There won't be enough money and you will have to get loans from the IMF and foreign banks. <br />Free Market Economics/Monetarism is being described, which would have been imposed. <br />As also said "this makes them the dumbest revolutionaries in the whole of Arab history".<br />When that failed the order was given for a Covert Operation using Jihadist paramilitaries.<br /><br />The Syrian government is defending the country.<br />These "lefties2 are giving aid to a hostile foreign power.<br /><br />The key War Aim of Washington is the overthrow of the Syrian government and placing of a client government in power.<br />it has yet to abandon that War Aim.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-85139621175389181892015-12-01T08:59:45.267-06:002015-12-01T08:59:45.267-06:00I should at least introduce my name. My name is Is...I should at least introduce my name. My name is Ishmam.<br /><br />For now, I will only deal with the allegation about alleged Israeli support for the Syrian revolution. <br /><br />Please note that I am anti-state, anti-Israel but also pro-Syrian revolution. I also consider myself to be of the left. As a libertarian and a leftist, I have been disheartened by the fact that both leftists and libertarians have allowed their anti-imperialist attitudes to get in the way of a proper perspective. <br /><br />Syrian revolutionaries do not all deserve to be accused of being 'jihadists' and such arguments about 'jihadism' and 'anti-imperialism' does not warrant the disregard libertarians and leftists have displayed towards the Syrian revolution. Note that I am against all imperialism, whether American or Russian, so my support for the Syrian revolution is also built on an anti-imperialist foundation.<br /><br />Anyway, back to Israel. To summarise, the treatment of 1,500 Syrians in Israeli hospitals is not a reason to dismiss the struggle against Assad in southern Syria. 500 of those Syrians were women & children, while there is no evidence that the vast majority of the men were not civilians (even putting aside the fact that Syrian rebels were former civilians and conscripts who were forced to take up arms in defense).<br /><br />Note also that Palestinian civilians and even fighters have been treated in Israeli hospitals in the past. Does that undermine the legitimacy of the Palestinian struggle? Of course not. Neither should the Syrian revolution be attacked on those grounds. <br /><br />Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in southern Syria are conducted for its own imperialist interests, not on behalf of Syrian revolutionaries.<br /><br />Please, I encourage you to at least skim through some of the analysis found on the following link. Karadjis has made sure to read and analyse the sources in question, so he isn't going by hearsay. <br /><br />We are all short on time, but in my experience, people have ended up denigrating the Syrian revolution on the basis of anti-revolution hearsay, a failure to integrate 'awkward' facts and the prevalence of hypocritical (or at least ironic) arguments. This issue is too important for anti-revolution arguments to go unchecked. <br /><br />https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/%E2%80%8Bthe-israel-backs-jabhat-al_nusra-fairy-tale-and-its-deadly-consequences/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-30834406716577487232015-12-01T07:41:34.208-06:002015-12-01T07:41:34.208-06:00"The Syrian revolutionaries, plus the Nusra F..."The Syrian revolutionaries, plus the Nusra Front, are no one’s bitch...."<br /><br />I never said otherwise. <br /><br />It's only lately that Obama and Hillary Clinton have suggested that getting rid of Assad is not <i>the</i> priority. I think they were pushed by events, the most recent being Paris. Before that, the government's conduct suggested otherwise -- that Assad was the top target. And Israel has given medical help to jihadists, returning them to the battle, while striking at Hezbollah in Syria. Israeli officials say that radical Sunnis are a lesser evil than the Shia.Sheldon Richmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672237234580563637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-6879768045596830702015-11-30T23:32:23.378-06:002015-11-30T23:32:23.378-06:00Sorry Sheldon, but I am going to have to disagree ...Sorry Sheldon, but I am going to have to disagree with you here.<br /><br />The Syrian revolutionaries, plus the Nusra Front, are no one’s bitch, even as they fight off the Assad regime and the Bakr al-Baghdadi regime.<br /><br />To the contrary, the United States prefers the continuation of the Syrian regime (they are more flexible about who the head is) while Israel prefers Assad to the rebels.<br /><br />Here are a few analytical posts that rebut a lot of the anti-revolutionary talking points:<br /><br />https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/the-israel-russia-axis-of-resistance-its-place-in-regional-geopolitics/<br /><br />https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/%E2%80%8Bthe-israel-backs-jabhat-al_nusra-fairy-tale-and-its-deadly-consequences/<br /><br />https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/who-has-the-us-bombed-for-in-syria/<br /><br />https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/anti-anti-imperialism/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com