To apologists for the dirty war in Syria, it's perfectly legitimate for the CIA, Israel, Gulf monarchies, UK, France, Germany, and Turkey to spend tens of billions of dollars arming one of the most powerful insurgencies in history -- one dominated by Al Qaeda, and one including thousands of fighters who aren't even Syrian.
It's also legitimate for the US military to occupy oil and wheat-rich regions of Syria and impose crippling sanctions that deliberately prevent reconstruction and further devastate the country's civilian population.
Without this foreign state support, Al Qaeda in Syria -- now known as HTS -- wouldn't have captured Idlib in 2015, and wouldn't have been able to launch its current offensive.
According to this same crowd, the Syrian government has no right to request the help of its allies to prevent Al Qaeda-led, foreign state-backed regime change.
One would call this position "hilarious" if it weren't so tragic. For @kshaheen, it's at least consistent. He works for @newlinesmag, an org that collaborates with the Pentagon, NED, and State Department. For a journalist covering US foreign policy, that's hilarious.
Mike