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Stephen Lendman explains,
"All armed opposition groups in Syria engaged in combat against government forces along with slaughtering defenseless civilians are terrorists.
Washington and its rogue allies support them -- imported death squads unable to exist without foreign backing.
No so-called 'moderate rebels' exist. Speaking last October at the International Valdai Discussion Club's annual meeting, Putin forthrightly said 'why play with words dividing terrorists into moderate and not moderate. What's the difference?'
W e no longer need to draw on historical memory either -- a weak spot with Western MSM consumers.
We can almost be forgiven for forgetting that the West destroyed Libya using al Qaeda proxies, and that Libya is now an ISIS stronghold.
We can almost be forgiven for forgetting that the West continues to destroy Iraq, using proxies, or that it did the same thing in Afghanistan, and Bosnia, or the fact that the West supports an illegal neo-Nazi infested regime in the Ukraine.
But in the here and now, ignorance or forgetfulness is not an excuse.
In an interview with neo-con Wolf Blitzer, on the CNN propaganda channel, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard re-iterated what we should all know: The war on Syria is illegal and counter-productive, and a (proposed) "No-Fly Zone" would escalate the war and worsen the current humanitarian and refugee crises.
She also amplified the fact that Western imperialism has (intentionally) strengthened rather than weakened terrorist groups in Iraq, Libya, and Syria.
In an interview with The Nation, she explained that
"Escalating the war to overthrow Assad will make things even worse. It will cause more suffering and chaos and strengthen ISIS and Al Qaeda to the point where they may be able to take over all of Syria," and the result, she says, would be disastrous, "including a genocide against religious minorities, secularists, atheists, and anyone who refuses to accept the extremist Wahhabi theology. The refugee crisis will increase exponentially, and it could lead to a direct confrontation with Russia."
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