====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ======================================================================
On Sat, December 14, 2013 10:42 am, Clay Claiborne wrote: > Given this track record, I regard all those who repeat unverified claims > of > rebel atrocities by the Assad as his supporters so don't complain when I > call you pro-Assad. You can call me anything you like, son, and I won't turn a hair. > Now to the question of Israel's stand in this bloody conflict. [opining from various Israelis snipped] No doubt there are plenty of people in Israel who don't agree with the Likudniks' long-standing and well-documented policy of destabilizing and weakening the various Arab states (and Iran of course, pro virili). But the Likudniks are in the driver's seat, both in Israel and within the US Israel lobby. Considering that the various heads of the hydra-like Lobby have been singing the intervention song in perfect unison -- as they did for the structurally similar Iraq adventure -- it seems a case of wilful blindness to insist tht Israel wants to prop up Assad. Or did people like William Kristol and Robert Kagan somehow not get that memo? As for Chomsky, nobody admires the guy more than I do, but he's only human, and he has a long-standing blind spot on this subject. By the way, may I enter a plea for subject lines that are NOT IN ALL CAPS?! There's no excuse for that level of n00bery in this day and age. I've left it alone, above, so as not to confuse readers who like their posts threaded; but it's ugly, ugly. -- Michael Smith m...@smithbowen.net http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com Tell Me More dept.: "[Johnson] also wrote a Preface for William Lauder, a man for whom he felt an immediate sympathy on account of his wooden leg, the result of a limb lost playing golf." ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
