You have to sprinkle some facts on the propaganda, otherwise it ends up just smelling like pure BS.
You did an ok job. I’m not a Tulsi supporter mostly because I don’t believe any candidate will ever get a nomination to a major party if they’re even remotely anti-war. Most politicians seem to grasp this simple truth about our horrendous government and the genocidal political parties that operate within it.
Tulsi may not be “anti-war” but she’s the closest thing we’ve had to a real anti-war candidate since Ron Paul (also) got railroaded by mainstream hack-journalism. Thanks again for the reminder that there’s no such thing as an anti-war candidate who will pass a rigged purity test capriciously designed by someone who craves nothing but more war!
Besides the entertainingly desperate stridency in this smear, your assertion that Assad just started up a civil war because of demonstrations is laughably false. The civil war in Syria started as a direct downstream of American interventionism in Iraq and then Syria — which sent thousands of fighting aged men pouring into Syria for years on end before it sparked the kind of instability that gave the death merchants in DC enough daylight to insert their influence into the region.
Maybe some of these guys were “moderate rebels” — but many of them were not. A good deal of them were covertly supported by the US State dept/CIA/Pentagon before they were overtly armed by the same. There’s even that inconvenient story about Pentagon armed “rebels” fighting CIA armed “rebels” in Syria. Which ones were moderate, I wonder? Maybe they were having battles over which was more moderate?
And the only reason Syria is not in total shambles, and is not a failed state is because Russia had the temerity to get in the way of another disastrous regime change war. A war that would have surely killed many thousands more than the failed one it’s trying to now pretend is about ISIS or something.
All of this is not even up for debate, and as proof people in the US government were talking about regime-change in Syria as early as 2012, and as late as 2016. You can pretend like we were sending “humanitarian aid” to “rebel” groups, or that US military was never actually interested in regime change, but it leaves some pretty gaping holes in this “story.”
I’m guessing the fact that the abject failure of the mainstream narrative surrounding Syria, and it’s ultimate flip-flop to not being about regime change at all, no sirree must SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF YOU. I’m hoping this kind of transparently warmongering hit piece against someone who is admittedly not anti-war enough for me is a sign of the leviathan’s death throes, or at least a sign that powered/moneyed interests might be realizing that they’re losing narrative control.
