WITH RUSSIA AND CHINA, BOTH FORMER COMMUNIST NATIONS, FIRMLY OPPOSED TO INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS AGAINST SYRIA AND IRAN, THE U.S. PLAN FOR A GREATER MIDDLE EAST CENTERED ON OIL MAY BE IN JEOPARDY. ONE YEAR AFTER THE ARAB SPRING AND THE NATO ATTACK ON LIBYA, A RECENT PUBLIC OPINION POLL HAD ONLY 19% SUPPORTING A U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN SYRIA, DESPITE HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS. LAST WEDNESDAY, THE BRECHT FORUM IN MAHATTAN HOSTED MICK COLLINS, A STAGE AND SCREEN ACTOR, DIRECTOR AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST TO ANALYZE THE RECORD ON U.S. "HUMANITARIAN" INTERVENTIONISM. THE DISCUSSION ENTITLED: "LIBYA-RWANDA, SAME COUNTER-REVOLUTION, DIFFERENT DAY", ATTRACTED A SIZABLE STUDENT AUDIENCE. WBAI FRED NGUYEN ATTENDED AND FILES THIS REPORT...