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Of the few supposedly cogent arguments that groups like StW coalition have left, is the idea that Syria is just a mess. Full of warring sides each in hoc to some imperialist power or another. The fact that groups like the Free Syrian Army or the Local Coordination Committees have accepted some funds from an America or Qatar is supposed to mean that they are now the “proxies” of these countries; that they are brown bodies with no agency of their own.
But this is utter rubbish. It always has been. During the Iranian revolution no lesser thorn in America’s side than Ayatollah Khomeini was in constant contact with the American embassy through Prime Minister Bazargan. Indeed at one point in the Iran and Iraq war, a war that lined up Iran against, more or less, the rest of the world, the Iranian regime received a one off payment of aid from Israel, separate to the Iran-Contra affair. Now, no one would say that either of these make the Islamic Republic a “client” or a “proxy” of the West, would they?
full: https://attheinlandsea.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/we-like-our-syrians-dead-the-british-left-and-david-cameron/
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