On Dec 9, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > > On Dec 9, 2013, at 8:41 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: >> >> Perhaps betraying senior moments, long-time reporters Seymour “Sy” >> Hersh (76) and Richard Sale (74) have penned articles of the sort >> that were rampant in the weeks following Barack Obama’s threats to >> do something about Bashar al-Assad’s August 21 sarin gas attack on >> East Ghouta. Despite the consensus among the “anti-imperialist” >> left was that Obama intended to attack Syria as a prelude to >> attacking Iran, after the fashion of Hitler using Poland as a >> launching pad for invading the USSR... > > Hitler invaded Poland with the full support and cooperation of the > USSR and full awareness that the invasion was *casus belli* for > Britain and France. It was indeed a launching pad, but for the > invasion of Western Europe, not Western Asia. > > > > Shane Mage > > "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64 > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: [email protected] > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/shmage%40pipeline.com
_______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
