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(Salvage gets it right. Why can't Jacobin?)
Anti-anti-Assad-ism has it that the refugees are fleeing Syria because
the US and its allies have funded an Islamist counter-insurgency against
an anti-imperialist regime. Plans are supposedly afoot for more
extensive intervention, for regime change along the lines of Baghdad
2003. Daesh is the weapon deployed (all of the Syrian oppositions being
assimilated into it in this account), and it was, in the words of Seamus
Milne, ‘incubated by the West’s supporting and arming an opposition they
knew to be dominated by extreme sectarian groups’.
Scepticism on any of these points can provoke heavy-handed contempt for
‘gullibility’ about the perfidious US. So let us be clear: that the US
would be willing to carry out this (or almost any other) plan is not in
doubt. Whether it did, however, in this case, and whether the Syrian
revolt was as so depicted, are questions susceptible to logic and
evidence. In fact, the popular revolutionary character of the Syrian
uprising in its early days has been documented by participants and
observers – the Syria Freedom Forever website being an excellent point
to start. Partisans of this imperialist conspiracy narrative, however,
are somewhat impervious to such data.
full:
http://salvage.zone/in-print/salvage-perspectives-2-awaiting-the-furies/
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