Monday, October 8, 2012

Empire and revolution - Syria and the critics of the anti-war movement

Click here to access article by John Rees from CounterFire (UK). 

The author provides the most astute analysis of the current Syrian conflict and the subject of revolution in general that I have read for some time. 

He then takes issue with some leftists who are supportive of the anti-Syrian forces because of a simplistic view that they all represent a more democratic alternative to the Assad regime. Rees clearly sees that Western agents are attempting to use some of the anti-Assad forces in Syria to engineer another Libyan-type regime change. Thus, our correct political position must be to oppose this.