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Lucky RKOB wasn’t around to give heroic keyboard advice to Tito and Ho Chi Minh about never collaborating with the US, or theremight still be a Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia and a Japanese imperial occupation of Vietnam. But RKOB is right that it would be silly to equate the misogynist racist reactionaries of HTS with the multiethnic feminist leftists of the SDF. On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 at 3:31 am, RKOB via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > This seems to me a particularly clumsy attempt to whitewash the role of > the YPG/SDF as foot soldiers of U.S. imperialism. As it is widely known, > the YPG/SDF leadership and the U.S. military have closely worked > together during numerous military operations. The U.S. Air Force has > given support to the YPG troops. The U.S. has armed the YPG, and so on. > (See on this e.g. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Democratic_Forces#Support_by_the_United_States,_France_and_other_Western_nations > ) > ... > How silly for Chris Slee to equate the role of the YPG with that of the > HTS! > _________________________________________________________ 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
