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I think Clay's first paragraph makes a valid point about the choices available in a three-way war, and whether and why to try to make it two-way. I wouldn't use the same formulations as he does to characterize the Soviet regime, but that's irrelevant to the point of the parallel he draws re the various combatants. I will say though that on the web in the last couple days the justified exposure and outrage over Obama's cuddling up to Assad has sometimes let JAN politically off the hook. Yes, they have fought both Assad and ISIS. And yes, that Obama is attacking them and not Assad is rightly seen (as the Syrian quotes in the article make clear) as proof of US imperialism's disregard for the Syrian people. But, as Syrian and other Arab revolutionaries have been pointing out, JAN are reactionary scum. Depicting the reality of the contending forces accurately does not require glossing over the politics of any of those forces. On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:28 AM, David P Á <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > Great, now we don't only get calls for imperialist intervention but > anti-soviet cold war propaganda too. > > --David. > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
