This leftist complicity in Washington's Syria operations is more than a lucky development for the imperialists. Like every other part of the Syria narrative, it's been engineered. The demonization of Assad and the omission of Washington's crimes has come from numerous left-oriented figures, from popular journalists like Amy Goodman to political artists like Molly Crabapple to public intellectuals like Noam Chomsky (who outright supports U.S. military involvement in Syria based on his desire to advance the establishment of a Kurdish ethnostate). Ironically, the man who wrote a book about how the U.S. manufactures consent has been helping with the consent manufacturing effort when it comes to Syria.
The ideological consensus behind this war has been ingrained into this country's left from every available angle of manipulation. From the start, the imperialists have worked to make their version of the events in Syria so ubiquitously repeated that it becomes unquestionable, even to the political groups that consider themselves to be opposed to imperialism.
There's the horror of the war propaganda paradigm that we in the imperial core are now trapped within. When even the supposed anti-imperialists don't see an imperialist operation happening, the destruction and theft that our government is wreaking in Syria and other places become utterly benign. The horrors abroad, along with the injustices at home, fade into banality as late-stage capitalism descends into barbarism.
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