[ogen hal]

Supporting our “moderate” terrorist friends...what could possibly go wrong?

[Mike Darancette]

Syrian rebels said Friday that newly arrived shipments of heavy weaponry could swing the momentum on the battlefield in their favor, after a shift in U.S. policy opened the door for others to send them arms.

Now the real dying can begin.

[Paladin2]

So 0bama wants to confiscate arms in America to send to jihadists working on The Caliphate?

[lowbridge]

I’m sure the obama administration made the Syrian rebels go through thorough background checks before giving them the weapons /sarcasm

[originalbuckeye]

Gosh, I just hate it when we arm those who have sworn to destroy us!

[Hardraade]

So the US has become, like, the main terrorist sponsor state?

[volunbeer]

This is analogous to arming some crips in a ghetto so they can kill some bloods.

It won’t end well and do people think they will just turn in their weapons after they win?

[Praxeologue]

Syria's main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni group. The Council's President, George Sabra, a Christian Communist (sic), is a fig leaf for the Muslim extremists. The Brotherhood and an al Quaeda-affiliated group, control "the ground", so the Syrian National Council is essentially irrelevant in any event. Two Christian Bishops have been kidnapped by the muslims and one of the two rebel groups has told Syrian Christians to "flee or be killed". There are 2-1/2 million Christians in Syria, comprising 10% of the population. Assad has protected the Christian minority, much as Mubarak protected Egypt's twelve million Christians. "Liberal" Syrians have no more chance of gaining influence if Assad is removed than Egyptian "liberals" did. Syria would, like Egypt, become a Sunni Muslim theocracy if Assad is removed. Many Christians would be slaughtered, unlike Egypt where they have broader influence. The Saudis, Sunnis themselves, support the rebels.

Over the coming weeks, we will be told that the international community has assured that, in return for military support, the Syrian opposition has granted greater power to "liberals", aka secularists. This will be a lie.

[metafugitive]

If there were any good guys in Syria, they have either been killed or left the country.

Personally, I think the chemical weapons are better off under Assad's control than whoever may be called a Syrian rebel because methinks that a lot of Syrian rebels are not from Syria.

[3Fingas]

Oh, goodie. Now our government is sponsoring Muslim fundamentalist cannibals. Just when you thought we hit rock bottom, the floor collapses from beneath your feet.

[PghBaldy]

Why not give these “patriots” the best, Obama? Surely they deserve nothing less /sarc

[American in Israel]

So thousands more civilians will die in the quest for a Caliphate, paid for by my ever increasing tax dollar at the hands of a Manchurian Muslim illegal immigrant.

In other news, the non-black lynching of Zimmerman is winding up to dominate the news cycle to bury the facts...