via Ghouta: Issues Behind the Apocalypse: Armed and civil rebellion, Class and Islam
March 21, 2018
Michael Karadjis on East Ghouta
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Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist 
This has been brewing in my head for awhile – if the US and allies deliberately armed the Islamist opposition in Syria only to later bomb them, that would mean this whole thing was an orchestrated pretext to invade Syria and gain a military foothold there like in Iraq. Yet nobody seems to grab this low-hanging fruit, instead opposing US intervention where Assad is concerned while ignoring the actual bombing of ISIS, JaN/JFS that has gone on for 3.5 years and counting. If one has to allege the Syrian opposition couldn’t exist without US arms, why not bring the conspiracy theory to the logical conclusion?
Comment by andrew r — March 23, 2018 @ 1:21 am