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On 2/21/18 5:28 PM, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote:
On the other hand, the PYD - conscious of the oppression of Kurds in Turkey - was right to be suspicious of any armed groups backed by Turkey and the Gulf states. Turkish aid to Syrian rebels came with conditions attached, including a requirement to be hostile to the Rojava experiment.
I have no idea what this means. Does anybody in their right mind think that the FSA was going to ethnically cleanse Rojava because Erdogan gave them AK-47s?
You know something, Chris, I did a search in Greenleft Weekly yesterday. There is only a single reference to Ghouta from back in 2013 after a thousand died from Assad's sarin gas attack. The cretinous Tony Iltis wrote: "In the absence of evidence, propagandists for both sides have promoted conspiracy theories to explain the attack's motivation." WTF? Both sides?
But when you search for "Rojava", you get ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX ARTICLES.
And when you wrote about the horrendous assault on Aleppo by Assad, you once again used the plague on both your houses bullshit. The Socialist Alliance issued a statement that included this: "The proliferation of armed groups not subject to democratic civilian control has been a major contributor to Syrians’ suffering." What does that mean? That Islamist groups incited Syrian and Russian jets to bomb hospitals? I have heard the same junk from Netanyahu after the IDF bombed Gaza.
I was happy you all dropped the Leninist nonsense. I only wish that you would also drop the kind of cheer-leading that is typical of sect formations.
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