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Here is link: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/9/15/why-syria-is-thegordianknotofobamasantiisilcampaign.html Begin forwarded message: > From: Marv Gandall <marvga...@gmail.com> > Date: September 15, 2014 at 11:29:59 PM EDT > To: Pen-L Economics <pe...@lists.csuchico.edu>, LBO > <lbo-talk@lbo-talk.Vrorg>, Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition > <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> > Subject: Joshua Landis on the US air campaign against ISIL > > A US-led air campaign won't be able to defeat the Islamic State (ISIL) inside > Syria, says Joshua Landis of the University of Oklahoma, writing in Al > Jazeera. > > Ground forces are needed to wrest control of the cities and countryside held > by ISIL, and while US and allied air power can support offensives by the > Iraqi army and the Kurds against the Islamic State in Iraq, the US has no > comparable proxy forces on the ground in Syria. The Obama administration is > hostile to the Assad regime and the two major Islamist militias which oppose > both the regime and ISIL. > > Administration efforts over the past three years to cobble together an > effective pro-Western fighting force from fragments of the Syrian opposition > and their rival regional sponsors have been spectacular failures, and Landis > doesn't believe its stepped up political and military push in the wake of > ISIL's rise is more likely to meet with success. > > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
