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Jeff Mackler in today's Counterpunch: "Today, Syria has recovered most of its historic territory, except for the isolated, routed ISIS and associated forces who remain in the Idlib province in northwestern Syria, which borders on Turkey. All Syrian efforts to remove these forces have been met with dire threats of massive retaliation from the U.S. and its NATO allies."
Let's be clear about this. Removing these forces means one thing and one thing only. Mass murder of civilians that has been going on for the past year and that will rise geometrically if the regime and Russia become even more emboldened than they are today. Mackler's pathetic sect split a few months ago because many members felt sick over this 80-year old cult leader's bloodthirsty worship of Bashar al-Assad. How this minor Trotskyist group evolved in this pathological direction is easy to understand. It became intoxicated in the same way that much of the left has, superimposing 2002 on the Syrian struggle. How such "revolutionaries" can worship at the altar of a mafia state is just beyond me. I say that as someone who was recruited by Mackler long ago into the SWP. Thank god, I came out of that experience with my brain intact.
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