I did want to avoid scaring that other guy with this sort of info on the guy, but you're 100% right, Evans has some...odd opinions for a "leftist" to say the least, and is at best controlled opposition and at worst a full on fed. He's been in active warzones in the past, so for him to just dismiss US soldier's role in imperialism is very strange indeed. He's seen firsthand the damage the US causes so I can't really imagine him taking that position without a blindly pro-US stance. He certainly does love to take CIA accounts of people at their word but is incredibly suspicious of any information that goes against the status quo.

I'm personally off the opinion that he is on the CIA payroll, he's a prominent journalist who really should know better, so he's either an idiot or a fed. And his articles are generally too well written for him to be the former.