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On 4/12/15 4:00 PM, A.R. G wrote:
If Cockburn was making the arguments Louis is accusing him of making,
then I am with Louis.
But I did not get that reading. It sounds less like he's calling for
drone attacks against ISIS and more like he's calling for an end to US
collaboration with Saudi Arabia, something perfectly valid.
That is because he is using circumlocutions such as this:
"But if we have decided that US air power is not to be used against Isis
or Jabhat al-Nusra when they are fighting the Syrian army because we
want to get rid of President Bashar al-Assad, then this is a decision
that benefits Isis, Jabhat al-Nusra and extreme jihadis."
A less weaselly formulation would be:
"The United States would be wise to bomb jihadists in Syria at all times
and under all conditions since the Baathists are a lesser evil than them."
Also, I do not know where Louis got the notion that Electronic Intifada
supports Assad.
My mistake. I meant Al Akhbar.
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