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"A blow to Trump"?? What has Juan been smoking? Trump has made clear he wants Assad to survive; and the US is allied to the SDF. So since the US didn't want to confront NATO member Turkey in Afrin, I'm sure Trump will be good with this. Of course, this is yet another reason the participation by some rebels in Turkey's attack on Afrin is a very bad thing. But then again, the regime is also extremely unlikely to actually heed the call, I think the regime is quite happy to see rebels and Kurds kill each other. As for the PYD calling for Assad to "protect Syrian sovereignty", yes it's a laugh, but at least we can say they are doing it under pressure. I wonder what excuse for Noam Chomsky and a dozen or so other left celebrities calling on such famous non-violators of Syrian sovereignty as ... Iran, Russia and the US ... to "protect Syria's sovereignty"!! One wonders why they didn't call on that other famous non-violator of Syrian sovereignty, Israel, to join in as well. On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:58 PM, Andrew Pollack <acpolla...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've seen this Ocalanite statement in various posts and tweets and was > waiting, before commenting, to be sure it's not a forgery. > > It's one thing to project a non-state, non-national, cross-border entity. > It's another to do so as an excuse to not fight for national > self-determination. And it's yet another thing for the leaders of such an > entity to call explicitly for Assad to protect Syrian national sovereignty > (the statement explicitly says Assad has a duty to do so!). > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 7:39 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism > <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: >> >> >> "There's a sucker born every minute." >> >> P.T. Barnum >> >> https://www.juancole.com/2018/01/trump-syrian-turkey.html > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Critical Syria" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to critical-syria+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to critical-sy...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/critical-syria. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. _________________________________________________________ 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
