Syrian army, Hezbollah attack rebels in border town: opposition

[pampango]

61. Just because you say it does not make it so. The Center for American Progress is a great source of

research from a progressive prospective.

If you believe that its research into the Syrian opposition is flawed, I welcome you to counter it with research that others have done that show something different. Or you can just trash the CAP and its study and try to convince us that you know better what the nature of the opposition really is.

What I hope we don't do is adopt the republican approach to policy making. In Iraq, they decided that they wanted to intervene then went about 1) inventing 'facts' that supported their policy and 2) ignored actual facts that contradicted them. I hope we do not decide on the policy first with respect to Syria then invent 'facts' that support the policy we want and ignore those that contradict them. Facts have a liberal bias. We do not need to invent them or ignore them.

BTW, CAP has stated that foreign intervention in Syria would be a huge mistake. They just do not want to ignore the facts when they make this policy decision.