What's good for Mosul is bad for Aleppo - or so we're told.
Aleppo and Mosul are both fighting ISIL/Nusra terrorists. But while Iraq is celebrated for bombarding Mosul, the Russian-Syrian coalition is condemned for the same action in Aleppo. Liberating a city through artillery and urban warfare is extremely destructive. So why is hyperbolic and moralistic reporting applied towards the Syrian government's campaign, but not in Iraq?
Stephen Gowans explains this double standard.
He also puts paid to the pernicious falsehood of the "Syrian Revolution," a reactionary Islamist insurrection against Syria's secular government from day one. Eric Draitser, and many others, bought into Washington's PR campaign. There was no democratic uprising, and no chants of "down with neoliberalism." We need to stop apologizing for violent contras, and start waving signs for the U.S. to get out of Syria.
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The Revolutionary Distemper in Syria That Wasnât
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