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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in">…anything but “imperialism,” is sheer nonsense and propaganda<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">For sure. and if you have the chance just run down the list of self-styled “leftists” and “socialists” and “progressives” who supported Obama on Libya and Syria. They all finally came out of the Warmongering
Imperialist Closet when they were needed for us to identify and denounce forever. Good riddance to them all! Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">fab</span></b><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">Champaign, IL 61820 USA<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><u><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">(personal comments only)<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Karen Aram [mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 21, 2018 2:11 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Boyle, Francis A <fboyle@illinois.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Peace-discuss List (peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net) <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] FW: Achcar covering up his support for Middle East wars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I just wanted to look him up, and was overwhelmed with the information and critiques of his support for war in both Libya and Syria.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Rather like Louis Proyect, and Ashley Smith, so called socialists, but obviously not. A socialist never supports imperialism. Any suggestion that what took place, before, during or after in Libya as now Syria, to
be anything but “imperialism,” is sheer nonsense and propaganda. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On Feb 21, 2018, at 12:01, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Yeah, Achcar stinks to high heaven. All the Imperialist Warmongers came out of their “Leftist” and “Socialist” closets when it came to Libya
and Syria.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Peace-discuss
[<a href="mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net"><span style="color:#954F72">mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net</span></a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Karen
Aram via Peace-discuss<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"><span style="color:#954F72">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</span></a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[Peace-discuss] Achcar covering up his support for Middle East wars</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Reading anything this guy has to say is rather like reading what any other supporter for war has to say, especially after his cover has been blown. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">In an attempt to salvage what little remains of his “socialist” credentials, Professor Gilbert Achcar, a longtime associate
of France’s New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA), has written an essay entitled “Inventive Illiteracy Amidst Petty Sectarianism.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Working at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and within the NPA-linked Socialist Resistance group in Britain,
Achcar has been a leading propagandist for the wars in Syria and in Libya, which he claimed were waged in defense of human rights. Despite the fact that pro-war propaganda has enveloped his political persona with an ineradicable stench, Achcar now protests
that his positions on the Middle East wars have been grievously misrepresented. Thus, he attacks an article by Sarah McDonald in the <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Weekly Worker</span></em>, the publication of the Stalinist Communist Party
of Great Britain (CPGB), which called Achcar a “social-imperialist.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">In dismissing McDonald’s epithet, Achcar vents his outrage against the “countless politically illiterate people” who “have
accused [me of] of ‘supporting’ NATO’s intervention in Libya.” He pompously adds, “I will not waste my time and that of the readers in reminding them here of what I really stood for.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Though Mr. Achcar does not care to review the record of his political support for the neo-colonial enterprises in Libya
and Syria, he cannot be allowed to rewrite his own history. The record is clear: Achcar publicly supported imperialist wars and discussed their prosecution with US and French intelligence assets. He bears political responsibility for the deaths of hundreds
of thousands of people.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">From the outset of the Libyan operation, Achcar played a key role in promoting the propaganda required by imperialism
to build a pro-war constituency within the milieu of the “leftish” affluent middle class. In March 2011, two days after the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1973 authorizing war in Libya, Achcar published an interview praising the war as a humanitarian
operation to keep Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime from attacking opposition groups in Benghazi.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">While noting that “there are not enough safeguards in the wording of the resolution to bar its use for imperialist purposes,”
Achcar said: “But given the urgency of preventing the massacre that would inevitably have resulted from an assault on Benghazi by Gaddafi’s forces, and the absence of any alternative means of achieving the protection goal, no one can reasonably oppose it…
You can’t in the name of anti-imperialist principles oppose an action that will prevent the massacre of civilians.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">He acknowledged the right-wing politics of the NATO-backed opposition, but hailed the war as similar to revolutionary
working class struggles that had toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak the month before. He called NATO’s Libyan allies “a mixture of human rights activists, democracy advocates, intellectuals, tribal elements, and Islamist forces—a very broad coalition
… The bottom line is that there is no reason for any different attitude toward them than to any other of the mass uprisings in the region.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Two years later, it is clear that the war Achcar embraced was an act of imperialist plunder. The NATO powers seized Libya’s
oil revenues and oil fields, carpet-bombed cities, including Tripoli and Sirte, and killed and wounded tens of thousands of people. It brought to power a NATO stooge regime based on a patchwork of Islamist militias that were NATO’s main proxy force to topple
and murder Gaddafi.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Achcar repeatedly demanded that NATO funnel more weapons to Libyan opposition militias. Thus, in a largely sympathetic
comment on Obama’s April 2011 speech on the war, he said the best way to “enable the uprising to win, in conformity with the Libyan people’s right to self-determination, is for the hypocritical Western governments—who have sold a lot of weapons to Gaddafi
since the arms embargo was lifted in October 2004, and Gaddafi turned into a model—to deliver arms to the insurgency.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Finally, as Libyan government forces began to collapse under NATO air strikes in August 2011, Achcar criticized NATO for
not striking Libya harder. He issued a statement citing right-wing <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wall Street Journal</span></em> columnist Max Boot’s observation that NATO warplanes had flown 11,107 sorties against Libya, but 38,004 sorties
in the 1999 war against Serbia over Kosovo.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">He wrote, “The crucial question then is: why is NATO conducting an aerial campaign in Libya that is low-key not only in
comparison with the air component of the war to grab similarly oil-rich Iraq, but even compared to the air war for economically unimportant Kosovo? And why is the alliance at the same time refraining from providing the insurgents with the weaponry they have
consistently and insistently requested?”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Achcar’s support for the war epitomized the unrestrained movement of a layer of pseudo-left middle class intellectuals
into the camp of imperialism. He functioned not only as a media publicist for war, but also as a strategist, hobnobbing with various US and French intelligence personnel and collaborators to discuss how best to present the wars to minimize popular opposition
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">In his latest piece, Achcar seeks to distort the facts surrounding his October 2011 meeting in Sweden with Burhan Ghalioun,
the president of the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC). During this meeting, he advised Ghalioun not to call for a NATO invasion of Syria—which would risk provoking mass popular opposition—but for “indirect” intervention to arm opposition forces.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">In the event, this is the policy NATO ultimately pursued, arming the SNC and other Islamist opposition forces, including
some tied to Al Qaeda. It led to a devastating proxy war in Syria that, in two years, has claimed over 100,000 lives and forced millions to flee their homes.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">In his current article, Achcar denounces as a “canard” claims that “I took part in a meeting of the Syrian National Council
(whereas it was actually a meeting of the left-wing National Coordination Council) in order to urge them to call for an imperialist intervention in Syria (whereas my contribution to the meeting was dedicated to exactly the opposite).”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Achcar’s denial is simply rubbish. He himself publicly announced that he had met with Ghalioun and described his advice
to the SNC in an article published in November 2011 in the Lebanese daily <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Al Akhbar</span></em>. The NPA reposted the article, including on its English language web site, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">International
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">In this article, he wrote: “I was able to attend the meeting of the Syrian opposition that was held on October 8-9 in
Sweden, near the capital, Stockholm. A number of male and female activists operating in Syria and abroad joined with prominent figures from the Syrian Coordination Committee (SNC—who had come from Syria for the event) in the presence of the most prominent
member of the Syrian National Council—its president, Burhan Ghalioun.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Professor Achcar can lie to his heart’s content, but the objective record of his reactionary political role has left smudges
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