full:
http://louisproyect.org/2013/09/08/in-the-court-of-leftist-public-opinion/

After careful study of unfolding events in Syria, and after interviews with 
some Syrian-American activists, and finally after a year’s worth of Skype 
conversations with a young man now living in Yemen who had defected from the 
Syrian military, I am as sure about which side to support in Syria as I was 
about Vietnam... LP

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OTOH, choosing sides, isn't the same as advocating for US military 
intervention, which I definitely do not. In the remaining late summer months 
of  2011, when the last of  unarmed demonstrations in Syria were getting 
shot by the Syrian military with tank back-up, neither did they. It's hard 
to remember now, but western intervention was debated openly and rejected. 
This was more or less contemporary with the turn to urban guerilla warfare 
that followed. And soon enough there were calls for arming this or that 
group.

In any event since when has bombing fixed anything? Has a grenade ever fixed 
an errant computer?

CG 

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