{"id":274313,"date":"2016-10-20T18:10:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/syria-and-the-left-time-to-break-the-silence\/"},"modified":"2016-10-20T19:14:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:14:01","slug":"syria-and-the-left-time-to-break-the-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/syria-and-the-left-time-to-break-the-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria and the Left: Time to Break the Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_87708\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87708\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/10\/15668607447_fdd25c52c1_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Kurdishstruggle | CC BY 2.0\" width=\"510\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/10\/15668607447_fdd25c52c1_z.jpg 510w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/10\/15668607447_fdd25c52c1_z-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Photo by Kurdishstruggle | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The cold, hard reality of the war in Syria is that the violence, bloodshed, and chaos continues unabated while the Left, such as it is, continues on in a state of schizophrenic madness. Different points of view, conflicting ideological tendencies, and a misunderstanding of the reality of the conflict are all relevant issues to be interrogated, with civility and reasoned debate in short supply. But those issues are not the urgent task of this article; the Left does need to seriously self-reflect though about just how it responds to crises of imperialism and issues of war and peace.<\/p>\n<p>However, what is urgently needed at this moment is a clear and unequivocal position on the future of this war, and the lives of all Syrians \u2013 political allegiances notwithstanding \u2013 as the escalation of the war approaches. There is little doubt that Hillary Clinton will win the crown of ringmaster of the political circus that is the US election. And, as she eases her freshly osculated behind into the leather captain\u2019s chair in the Oval Office, it is only a matter of time before she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-clinton-syria-idUSKCN0RZ1C020151005\">ratchets up US military involvement<\/a> in Syria, with a full US war, and attempted regime change, becoming all but a certainty.<\/p>\n<p>And where will the Left be then? This question is not merely rhetorical as the Left has found itself in the usual circular firing squad predicament over the war in Syria. And though the issue continues to be debated, what should be beyond dispute&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/10\/20\/syria-and-the-left-time-to-break-the-silence\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Kurdishstruggle | CC BY 2.0 \u00a0 The cold, hard reality of the war in Syria is that the violence, bloodshed, and chaos continues unabated while the Left, such as it is, continues on in a state of schizophrenic madness. Different points of view, conflicting ideological tendencies, and a misunderstanding of the reality of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-274313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}