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Comrade Grumpy

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1. That LRB article is very good, and very dispiriting.

Reply to pampango (Original post)

Mon Feb 25, 2013, 04:52 PM

Feb 2013

It describes flows of arms and money from the Gulf states to various rebel factions. It also makes it seem like the FSA is a joke, a fiction. Instead, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of "battalions," all doing their own thing. Hey, it's a living!

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That LRB article is very good, and very dispiriting. Comrade Grumpy Feb 2013 #1