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I wasn't looking to confirm your point - or Bennis' - but rather to find a good account of what is going on inside Syria. Patrick Cockburn's reports in The Independent have seemed to be reliable. On Aug 27, 2013, at 9:27 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/27/13 9:29 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote: >> "What stops the Syrian army capturing many rebel areas is not armed >> opposition but shortage of troops, unwillingness to suffer casualties >> among trained soldiers and an inability to hold captured areas in the >> long term. If Syrian generals did use chemical weapons last Wednesday >> this lack of manpower might explain why they did so." > > Thanks for confirming the point I was making. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
