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New from Linux Beach:
Critique of Proposed VFP Resolution 2015-3 Stop All Foreign
Intervention In Syria
<http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/08/critique-of-proposed-vfp-resolution.html>
This resolution would be laughable if *Veterans for Peace* policy on
Syria wasn't already so at odds with its goals of the organization and
the requirements of the Syria people today. The fact is that both the
tragedy of more than 200,000 slaughtered and nine million made
homeless and rise of Islamic reaction in the form of ISIS are the
direct results of the /"anti-imperialist"/ policy advocated by VFP.
Unlike in Libya, in Syria the /"anti-imperialists"/ have gotten what
they have been demanding, no direct military involvement from NATO and
no no-fly zone. Assad has been free to barrel-bomb civilians at will
and with the military support he has received from Russian and Iran,
he has been able to bomb virtually everyday for years now.
More than 200,000 slaughtered and nine million made homeless and the
rise of Islamic reaction in the form of ISIS are the direct results.
Now this resolution proposes doubling down on the same failed policies
and coming from the same deluded fantasies about the real situation.
But then this resolution really isn't about Syria. With all they have
gone through, it should be. It really should be. But its not. It lacks
any real knowledge or concern about Syrians. It doesn't make a single
proposal, like supporting the White Helmets or refugee efforts [MSF],
that could make a difference in the terrible situation they find
themselves in, but then this resolution really isn't about them, is
it? Its about US!
Resolution 2015-3
Stop All Foreign Intervention In Syria
The title is a great one that I can get 100% behind. The fact is that
without massive foreign intervention by Russia and Iran, Assad would
have been overthrown by the popular uprising years ago. Hundreds of
thousand would not be dead, millions would not be homeless and
extremist groups like ISIS wouldn't have had a chance to grow in the
gaping wound that has become Syria. Deflections weakened the Syrian
regime long ago, since 2013 the /"Syrian state"/ has been under
Iranian control and run at every level by Iranian officials. It was
the massive intervention of Hezbollah that salvaged Assad's military
position when he was on the edge of defeat and since then it has been
sectarian Iranian, Iraqi and Lebanese militias that have kept him in
power. Massive financing and weapons deliveries from Russia that has
kept him going as well. Without that foreign intervention, the Assad
regime would have been bankrupt years ago and the death toll a
fraction of what it is today.
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<http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/08/critique-of-proposed-vfp-resolution.html>
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