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On 10/24/16 11:44 AM, Dennis Brasky via Marxism wrote:
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2016/10/24/intervention-in-syria-wouldnt-start-world-war-iii
Sam Charles Hamad is cut from the same cloth as Clay Claiborne. The idea that you would urge a vote for Hillary Clinton because she is for a NFZ is pretty fucked up considering that when she was a Senator she voted for the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq that cost the lives of more than a million Muslims.
Also, I am not sure whether it registered on Stein that answering the questions of a woman who stuck a mike in front is exactly the same thing as being a guest on Alex Jones's radio show. Stein's advisers hopefully would have warned her about that.
I asked a physician from Aleppo at the Barnard meeting how important a NFZ is to people there and whether they are looking forward to a Clinton victory on that account. He responded that they gave up on the USA providing any kind of significant help after Obama's "red line" empty threats.
Finally, I have been rather put off over the past couple of years by the rather porous border between Syrian solidarity activists like Hamad and neocons. They have frequently crossposted links to articles by Kyle Orton and Attila Hoare, the kind of neocons who signed the Euston Manifesto. Just last week Idrees Ahmad was referring favorably to David Petraeus. And this guy wrote a book about the invasion of Iraq no less. It was this kind of stuff that finally got me so fed up I unsubbed from Danny Postel's listserv on Syria.
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