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On 1/18/17 10:28 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
What Vijay obviously refuses to recognize is that in the name of secularism, diversity and enlightenment values, Assad is carrying out the same kind of ethnic cleansing as Israel. If the Sunni poor, the overwhelming majority of the country, had consented to live peacefully under a family dynasty that was driving down their standard of living mercilessly under a neoliberal regime, there never would have been a reason to force Syrians to go into Idlib, which is turning into the equivalent of the West Bank.
I should add that the other day a FB friend began messaging me from Idlib (which he spells Idleb). He was a law student at the U. of Aleppo who was driven into Idlib. He is suffering from a broken leg that resulted from a fall when he was running away from a Russian aerial bombardment there. This was the first time in a few years when I had contact with someone in Syria. The last time it was a former army medic who had gone AWOL after seeing captive militia members being tortured in a hospital. Assad is the 21st century's bloodiest dictator. Historians a decade from now will puzzle over how so many on the left came to regard him as a hero.
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