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Read AlterNet’s coverage of the carnage and one walks away with the impression that the United States is backing a jihadist menace despite their airstrikes against Islamists, that Washington is obsessed with taking out the one leader who separates civilization from the Sunni barbarians despite the west’s public stance against ISIS. ANSWER, a heavy hitter in the anti-war scene in the United States, opposes US action against Assad, but also cheered on the government and Russian brutal advances into eastern Aleppo on grounds it was “under the control of terror groups.” Russian state-controlled RT called the campaign a “liberation,” hitting the same notes neoconservatives heralded during the assault on Iraq as a “liberation” from Saddam Hussein.
In just one example of the crack up, after Jacobin posted an article about how an anti-war left must also oppose Assad’s brutality, the comment section exploded with dissent about how his necessary evil keeps the jihadist forces at bay, and that’s all there was to it. What’s taken hold is in the multitude of American left reactions to Syria, there’s one sector that ominously takes on both the paranoia of the far right Alex Jones and Richard Spencer camp (both support Assad) and the neoconservative binary world view that the global is an eternal existential battlefield between Western enlightenment and Islamic terror.
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