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Chris Slee has it correct! It is too bad that the moderator does not learn from history. Religious fanatics have and are inclined to use every brutality against those who think different. Most of the Iranian left falsely believed in 1979 that Iran's Shite leaders would adhere to democracy and not carry out the same behavior as the Shah. A tragic mistake to not understand the reactionary role of religious fundamentalism. The moderator is unaware of 9/11 and the Islamic terrorist use of civilian planes on buildings? If one wants to believe that al-Qaeda's supporters in Syria (al-Nusra, etc.) and ISIS and other such jihadi fanatics would not use indiscriminate bombing as Bashir al-Assad, is ignoring reality. Suicide bombing by vehicle is regularly used - and like the Shinto religious fanatics of Japan in their kamikaze plane attacks, or the British Christian use of poison gas on the Iraqis efforts for independence following WWI, or the United States widespread use of napalm bombings in Korea and later Vietnam - there is a long sad barbaric history of violence - by religious "believers". As a Gay man, I can tell you with certainty that religious fanatics harm - and many are happy to do massive harm with savagery and whatever weapons they can gain use of - including planes. Karl Marx was correct when he identified religion and religious believers - as part of the problem. As "the opium of the people". Perhaps some want to view Islam "as progressive" - but it is not and like its other religious adherent counter parts - promotes masters, rulers and servants. Away with all false ideologies and backward thinking - including in Syria! On 3/18/17 4:09 PM, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote: > I think it is reasonable to assume that if such groups came to power and had > control of an air force they would be prepared to bomb cities that rebelled > against their rule. Except that the "jihadists" have never deployed artillery in the indiscriminate fashion that Assad has used his air force. When a single hospital in West Aleppo came under fire, there were ten thousand articles denouncing such inhumanity but not a single one about all the hospitals that had been leveled to the ground in East Aleppo. If you have trouble grasping this, I suggest you read the Zionist press on Hamas's rocket attacks on Sderot. As is almost universally the case, the "anti-imperialist" press can figure this out when it comes to Gaza but not Syria. Too bad that Chris Slee reflects this sort of bad faith. <http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/causecollector%40msn.com> _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
