——Aren’t Syrian Al Quaeda those ‘moderate rebels’ we’re supporting.-—
no. the rebels of which you speak began the revolution in Syria as citizens and defecting military. they had HQ near the Turkish border and actually inside Turkey
At some point the revolution was taken over by AQ and to a greater extent by ISIS
However this view is not Free Republic doctrine and has been dogmatically rejected by those that are unable to understand there are different Islamic groups
Ok...well let me ask a few dumb questions:
1. If Assad is deposed, will the ‘moderate rebels’ take control...or will Al Quaeda or ISIS take control.
2. What is our compelling national interest in deposing Assad - especially if the answer to question no. 1 is a ‘no’.
If I equate this to American politics - some people in the neverTrump crowd are advocating voting for Gary Johnson. IMHO, a vote for Gary Johnson is just as good as a vote for HRC. Similarly, supporting the ‘moderate rebels’ in deposing Assad is just as good as supporting Al Quaeda and ISIS. I just don’t understand why we are so hell bent on picking out a side...and by ‘picking a side’, I mean really parsing words and trying to differentiate a group that wears a white cowboy hat in this mess...when we know that, at the end of the day, no Assad = a terrorist run nation state.
> the rebels of which you speak began the revolution in Syria as citizens and defecting military
AKA it began as a Hillary Clinton/CIA “color revolution”
