Re: [Marxism] Fwd: A Bad Defense for a Mistaken Policy

[Clay Claiborne via Marxism]

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This may be the best thing I have ever heard on Democracy Now:
http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2016/08/amy-goodman-should-adress-this.html

*DR. ZAHER SAHLOUL:* I met with him in July 2013. There was a reception in
> the White House, and I had 30 seconds to talk with him. I delivered a
> letter on behalf of the Syrian American Medical Society and Syrian
> physicians, asking him to protect hospitals and protect civilians, the same
> way that we provided protection to Bosnia during the conflict. *I told
> him that his legacy will be determined by what he does and what he does not
> do in Syria. He laughed, and he said that, "But my legacy will be
> determined by other things." I told him, "Mr. President, your legacy will
> be determined—the most important factor will be Syria." I still believe
> that Syria will determine his legacy.* And the fact that President Obama
> did not follow on his pledges when he had these red lines and did not
> enforce it, I think this is what is causing the chaos and the extremism and
> the refugee crisis that we are facing right now*.*
>

So he can never say he wasn't warned.

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On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

>
> More than half of Syria's pre-war population now falls into one of the
> following categories: dead; dying; disabled; tortured; terrorized;
> traumatized; sick; hungry; homeless. The regime of Bashar al-Assad is
> responsible for the bulk of this rampant, remorseless criminality. The
> administration of Barack Obama, if it stays on its present course, will
> make it through noon, January 20, 2017, without having defended a single
> Syrian civilian from the Assad-Russia-Iran onslaught.


I should be added that this was the demand of the majority of Green Party
voters, who probably voted for Obama in '08 [ I didn't - I voted for
Cynthia McKinney who went on to promote Qaddafi's rape victims as examples
of revolutionary women ] and now will vote to put Trump in the WH. [They
won't vote for Trump, they will in effect abstain.]
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[Marxism] Fwd: A Bad Defense for a Mistaken Policy

[Louis Proyect via Marxism]

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More than half of Syria's pre-war population now falls into one of the 
following categories: dead; dying; disabled; tortured; terrorized; 
traumatized; sick; hungry; homeless. The regime of Bashar al-Assad is 
responsible for the bulk of this rampant, remorseless criminality. The 
administration of Barack Obama, if it stays on its present course, will 
make it through noon, January 20, 2017, without having defended a single 
Syrian civilian from the Assad-Russia-Iran onslaught. This thoroughly 
avoidable result may well serve to define Mr. Obama—accomplishments at 
home and abroad notwithstanding—as a failed president.


full: 
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/syriasource/a-bad-defense-for-a-mistaken-policy

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