You know, it is entirely possible to both oppose Western and other foreign intervention in Syria and support the legitimate political aspirations its people. Just sayin'.
It's not that the Leninists dont get it. It's that their patheticly quaint 19th century theorems of revolutions don't allow "the masses" to get it. They sell a binary view of the world not because they believe it, but because they view their fellow human beings as a herd incapable of grasping ambiguity or complexity or nuance.
Which is a nice labour saving device for a psued of any stripe. If you assume your audience are idiots, you eliminate the time consuming bother of fact checking, coherent arguments or compelling prose.
You can retire, to comfort, in sloth.
4th International, meet FOX news, you make a beautiful couple.
Well said FM.
So HB I have got to admit I can't figure out what you are saying. You talk about Leninists and then you compare the 4th International to FOX. Do you not know that the people who founded the 4th International were in fact Trotskyists. What were you trying to say?
The people of Syria want a cease fire now. They don't want the regime over thrown by force as a precondition to anything. The problem the terrorists have is that in a multiparty fair election there is a good chance the Ba'ath party will be one of the top parties and maybe even the largest. The thugs from other countries that want a theocratic dictatorship akin to the Roundheads have nothing to gain from democracy because the Syrians will never vote for a theocratic government led by them. If the constitution is rewritten in a polluted process in the aftermath of a military defeat at the hands of NATO's air force the people of Syria will suffer greatly.
The only answer is an immediate cease fire and an election process. The people and government need time to clean up the rubble and put their lives back together while the new democratic electoral system is put in place. Once a new government is elected then I would like to see an amnesty coupled with the surrender of control of all areas to the new government and the disarming of militias at least of everything other than light arms. But of course it is for the people of Syria to decide.