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Taliban In Afghanistan Bad, Al Qaeda In Syria Good
Taliban In Afghanistan Bad, Al Qaeda In Syria Good
Dec. 9, 2024
U.S. and ISRAEL IMPERIALISM - FOLLOW THE MONEY
Caitlin Johnstone
It’s pretty wild how the west went directly from “We need to occupy Afghanistan for two decades to prevent it from being taken over by the Taliban” to “Yay! Syria’s been taken over by al-Qaeda!”
The IDF has moved to occupy new stretches of Syrian land in the name of protecting its safety and security in the wake of Assad’s removal, to approximately zero condemnation from the western power alliance.
One of the dumbest things we are asked to believe about Israel is that the only thing it can ever do to ensure its safety and security when a danger presents itself is to grab more land. Land grabs are always the answer.
Empire apologists rely heavily on the appeal to emotion fallacy when discussing Syria, because they have no real arguments. They can’t counter criticisms of the years of western interventionism which destroyed Syria, so they babble about Assad’s victims instead. But no matter how many sad stories you tell and no matter how much sympathy you elicit, it will not amount to a counter-argument against the extensively documented fact that the US and its allies worked to destroy Syria with the goal of toppling Damascus from the very beginning in 2011. You can rend your garments about barrel bombs and prisoners all you want, but it still won’t be an argument.
Reading by Tim Foley
Article with supporting links: https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/12/10/taliban-in-afghanistan-bad-al-qaeda-in-syria-good/
Original: https://youtu.be/zUx9dwuCKDE
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