** aerial bombing of jungles **
Obviously we need safe zone where bombing won’t hurt anyone. I thought of this first!
Proyect is better considered “pseudo-left”. He has also claimed the White Helmets to be heroes and that the Syrian “revolution” is a worker’s revolt which will establish a progressive paradise. When challenged, he reverts to insults and exaggerated projections.
Information from official policy documents dating back to 2012-13, either leaked or obtained through FOI inquiries, made it clear the plan was to first use imported jihadist fighters to overthrow Assad and then use NATO to intervene and defeat the jihadists. That is, Syria’s citizens were intended to suffer two major conflicts and end up a NATO protectorate. And the cooks of that vile broth have been the loudest and most shrill invoking “humanitarian” concern.
Assad and Putin are bringing a horrible end to the carnage in Syria as opposed to the Saudi, Israeli and US-preferred endless horror.
This was always the choice, and those who claimed “humanitarian” justifications for supporting the rebels were always the ones promoting and prolonging the suffering.
Neocon Max Boot now says it’s better for the Syrian people if Assad stays in power.
He says that, but if you read the piece all he is really doing is trying to cut neocon losses and hold onto a partitioned Syria.
He claims to believe “Tyranny is preferable to endless and useless war“, but like all neocons he sheds crocodile tears while actually pushing for endless and useless war. He wants the US to remain illegally occupying Syrian land, and to use spurious pretexts involving supposed chemical weapons attacks to wage illegal war on the Syrian government.
No neocon should ever be rehabilitated to civilised society until he has made a proper and convincing mea culpa for his past criminal advocacies.
In the case of Max Boot, if he ever does write a plausible piece on international relations that is not a mere apology and rationalisation for warmongering interventionism (as was the linked WP piece), then perhaps he could be rehabilitated if he were also to engage in a proper and convincing act of contrition for his advocacy of bloody rebellion in Syria, as well.
I propose the Japanese Yakuza tradition of yubitsume. Any former neocon should be required to carry out the televised ceremonial severing of one joint of his little finger for each war he has supported. After that, they can be regarded as probationary civilised men again.