To give Shamus Cooke some credit, he is the first pro-Assad leftie to acknowledge that the invasion of Syria bent on regime change did not occur, reminding me somewhat of a TV weatherman sheepishly admitting against a backdrop of blue skies and bright sunshine that a predicted hurricane had failed to materialize. If a meteorologist keeps making such mistakes on a consistent basis, he or she might lose their job. Those on the left have no such worries. In an article titled “Obama’s New Middle East Strategy”, Cooke states: “By agreeing to the Russian plan of eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons, Obama admitted humiliating defeat and signaled that the U.S. was abandoning the proxy war against the Syrian government…”
Now who in their right mind wouldn’t be happy that a hurricane was averted? Well, maybe those Syrian ingrates living in rocket-blasted tenements inside Syria or in refugee camps outside the country dealing with polio, starvation and bitter cold but they are expendable in the grand struggle against imperialism. After all, as comrade Stalin used to say, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.” full: http://louisproyect.org/2013/11/05/why-obama-did-not-make-war-on-syria/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
