Syria while imposing brutal sanctions on the Syrian people. What is your
perspective on Syria and the Kurdish question?
NC: Well, the United States pretty much abandoned the Kurds in Rojava after they
had served the purpose of the United States. [They] had provided basically the ground
forces for driving out ISIS and suffered over 10,000 killed. Then President Trump just
told them to get lost and handed them over to the Turks, their most bitter enemy, who
proceeded to move in and drive them out and slaughter them. They're holding out for
the time being.
The sanctions on Syria are brutal and destructive. Sanctions generally attack the
civilian population. They have no effect on the leadership. They're murderous and
brutal. That's what sanctions are like. The sanctions on Iraq, for example, devastated
the country. [They] didn't harm Saddam Hussein, and his coterie, in fact, it probably
strengthened them because the population had to rely on them for survival. In fact,
they might have been overthrown from within if it hadn't been for the sanctions. Well,
we're seeing that again in Syria, as we see it in other places. It's a horrible situation.
It's hard to see anything good, almost anywhere.
2
Thanks to Roderic Day of Red Sails (
https://redsails.org/
) who provided some ideas regarding this interview in
January 2021.
4
Guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) with AK-47s surrounded by
YPG, PKK, and Kurdish flags. Some of the PKK flags depict Abdullah Ocalan,
the imprisoned founder and leader of the PKK.
CH: Thinking of the state of the U.S. empire today and the anti-imperialist
movement, do you have a theory of imperialism? What does imperialism mean
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