Syria and Iraq: Why US policy is fraught with danger"Their violent sectarianism is not very different to that of Isis."
Same shit from Cockburn, different day. He's not talking about the Assad régime, which has unleashed far more violent sectarianism than ISIS (though which is more horrific is still up in the air), but about those who are disgusted by both. It is a "pretence" that there is a moderate military operation, then in the next paragraph they are all over the place, only they "report to the CIA", as if they are nothing more than an American proxy. Any weaponry given by anyone else will end up with ISIS, because some of their anti-tank rockets are the same as those the Saudis provided to the FSA (not some jihadi militia, you note). Maybe they got them when they captured a load of American military equipment in Mosul.
Meanwhile, Robert Fisk is losing touch with reality completely. His latest is a Bosnia comparison with invented views imputed:
"Odd, isn’t it, how we took a vaguely similar view of those Muslims who originally travelled to Syria to help overthrow Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The peaceful revolution was being ruthlessly suppressed and we were happy to send money and guns to the opposition – and turn a blind eye if Muslim “humanitarian” workers were so angered by events that they joined the rebels. Only when the toughened fighters of Afghanistan and Chechnya and other Muslim nations turned up to take over the battle did we suddenly express our horror."
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