Saturday 1 November 2014




Yet again on those hoary old allegations that the US has armed the FSA since 2012


By Michael Karadjis

"I think he means that by arming the FSA, which he alleges (but fails to demonstrate) the US was doing “since 2012,” this led to the rise of ISIS, because he is too stupid to be able to tell the difference between the secular FSA, the moderate Islamist groups, harder Islamists, al-Qaida and ISIS. He believes, like most imperialist
media by the way, everyone fighting in Syria against the regime is a “jihadist”, some more open than others, that anti-Assad Syrians are by definition all “extremists,” that there cannot be such a thing as an anti-Assad “moderate,” that if you give a gun to an Arab moderate he will automatically give it to a jihadist, and other such breathtakingly racist and orientalist filth.
The allegation is all the more disgusting given that it has only actually been the FSA and its allies that have fought ISIS, and earlier this year valiantly pushed ISIS out of large parts of Syria, at a cost of thousands of fighters’ lives. If only they did have the weapons Sinclair falsely alleges they have they could have even done a better job."

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