This is so tragic and important in equal measure: the anti-US reflex is throwing some people into the arms of the extreme right. But just because the US helped install Pinochet doesn't exonerate Assad. There *is* a principled position based on inter alia human rights, not left-right tribalism.
Reposted from George Monbiot
1. I saw this again and again from people like Tulsi Gabbard, who was then on the left: a complete absence of empathy towards the victims of Assad's attacks in Syria. And making common cause with the far right in supporting his regime and its Russian backers.🧵
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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