Understanding #Syria, Especially Retaking of #Aleppo, for Dummies.
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Sadanand Patwardhan
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Dec 20, 2016, 5:18:33 AM12/20/16
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The Bleeding Hearts {Liberals, progressives, Leftists, Neo-Liberals, Conservatives, Neo-Conservatives} are crying hoarse over the Blood-Bath in Aleppo. War is not a tidy affair. The Human Tragedy in terms of lives, livelihoods, displacement is colossal. Usually, when USA & it's "Useful" Allies are "winning", Mainstream Media (MSM) would routinely minimise the ghastly tragedy as "Collateral' Damage. But, when the "Proxies" of US & Allies are at the receiving end, then the MSM goes hyper with pathos of blood & gore -whether Real or Reel-one. Let us face facts square in the face. Assad or Qaddafi or Saddam are/were undoubtedly autocrats and dealt with their opposition very brutally. But, what do we compare them with? Obviously with what has displaced them with material help from the only superpower; and not some utopia of imagined democracy. This is precisely the exercise that is carried out with pinpointed accuracy by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, whose first CAVEAT reads: