Syria: If People Don't Do Their Own Damn Revolution, It Won't Work

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4. that's an awful piece.

and I am absolutely opposed to intervention in Syria

First of all, the comparison is utterly spurious. Fuck, of course the colonies were able to set up infrastructure. We were thousands of miles across an ocean from our colonizer, in an era when traversing the ocean took weeks.

Chile? Brazil? Almost as spurious. the religious divide which is such an enormous component in Syria, played virtually no part in those countries.

Oh, and lest Hartmann forgot: There was indeed foreign intervention/aid in the U.S. Revolution. Has he never heard of General Lafayette?

In the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), France fought alongside the United States, against Britain, from 1778. French money, munitions, soldiers and naval forces proved essential to America's victory over the Crown, but France gained little except large debts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War

About the only thing Hartmann gets right here is that U.S. intervention is a really, really bad idea.