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Lou Proyect writes: “If it can be established as a "red line" that the American military only be used to defend American territory from attack (watch out for those dastardly Nova Scotians), any setback to revolutionary forces such as those taking on ISIS now would be more than offset by the freedom of peoples everywhere to dare to revolt without fear of the Navy Seals, drones and all other forms of bullying and violence.” Is Proyect telling the PYD they should cease fighting against Daesh until the nonexistent US left can get its shit together and stop US imperialism from the inside? PYD hands have to remain perfectly clean of US imperialism cooties even at the expense of seeing every secular leftist Kurd slaughtered by Daesh? The PYD are facing an enemy grown in the petri dish of US occupation of Iraq, who are using heavy weapons of US origin and who receive important logistical support from Turkey - a local gendarme of US imperialism in the region (and staunch enemy of Kurdish self-determination). With all of these elements of US imperialism and its consequences stacked against it the PYD should refrain from taking advantage of the contradictions of US imperialism and refuse to operate in coordination with US air strikes against Daesh. As practical matter, what are the PYD supposed to do, not use violence against Daesh while the Americans are attacking Daesh too? Proyect is telling the PYD to eat a real “setback” (one that would involve their extermination) in the here and now in exchange for a freedom from US intervention in the imaginary future after the nonexistent US left has put an end to US imperialism. This is where arm chair quarterbacking struggles thousands of miles from one’s own lived experience lands you – in the purity and “consistency” of a hollow abstraction, totally disconnected from reality. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
