On 4/17/14 2:36 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Does it matter who they are?
For three years now I have been making the case for the FSA, the so-called "moderate" rebels who Obama has about as much interest in seeing taking power as the OSS had in the Viet Minh taking power. Imperialism makes investments too keep its foot in the door in such affairs, but never on the same scale and with the same gung-ho spirit as when it backed the Nicaraguan contras et al. I have never actually advocated American arms for the FSA or no-fly zones, etc. in the same way that Hitchens did. My one and only aim in writing about Syria is to challenge the consensus on the left that the FSA has anything in common with the Nicaraguan contras. For the past three years, the Global Research left has tried to make this case even though Chossudovsky's website has far stronger ties to the right. It is the product of the marriage between the right and the left epitomized by Rush Limbaugh citing Global Research's Yossef Bodansky on his radio show and by the European right's budding romance with Vladimir Putin. It hearkens back to National Bolshevism, a virulent strain of Marxism that took root in the 1920s in Germany, a sick attempt to wed the left to the burgeoning Nazi movement. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
