Patrick Cockburn has insisted <http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/fear-brings-the-enemies-of-isis-together-at-last/> that, if they are not already, ISIS and the Syrian government will soon be the only players of any significance in the conflict, and that the hope for some triumph of secular moderates is purely wishful at this point. Do you disagree with this?
Nathan
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> Glen Ford doesn't know a damn thing about Syria. . . .
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> Who cares. Glen Ford knows a lot about the menace the U.S. represents --
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> that is the relevant data re Syria or Iran or Iraq or almost every other
> spot on earth. Gabbling about what's wrong with Assad in this context is
> viciously irrelevant.
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> Carrol
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