“Demonstrating yet again that we do not have an effective opposition party in the United States right now,...”
Never did.
See my tag line.
The Syrian rebels are ISIS or at least in league with them. This vote by the Senate to arm them up is INSANE! Both of our RINO moron GA senators voted for it. Why would we think the Syrian rebels are going to fight ISIS?
Just what Iraq needs 5,000 Syrian rebels being injected into their fight and on their turf.
4 more:
1: The US has proven time and time again that it has zero ability to discern “friendlies” from “enemies” when it comes to these types of guerilla wars the US clumsily stumbles into. Jet fighters with transponders, no problems. This is a quick-patch shallowly-considered jerkball move taken for the purpose of appearing to do *something*. The more the US hates these kinds of wars (for plenty of good reasons) the more it is likely to make poorly-considered kabuki-theater moves like this.
2: This appears to generate 5K friendly fighters against an estimated 30K ISIS with good possibilities of doubling the ISIS forces over the year this is supposed to take to come to fruition. Yeah, that’ll work. 5 versus 60.
3: Considering the number of Muslim Brotherhood operatives now ensconced in the White House in the DHS plus the always present possibility that any FSA force we “create” will have numbers of spies, there is essentially zero chance of ever achieving any sort of surprise in any act this force will be charged with carrying out.
4: Especially because this is being done in this pre-election period, there will be no particular way to know, when our so-called leaders come back, whether this has any functionality to it. But by that time, it will be “let’s give it another year” no matter how good or bad it is working or not working by that time. In other words, there will be legislative inertia created here; the reluctance to shut this effort off, ever, no matter how badly (or wonderfully) it works out.
Whenever we arm “rebels” we end up fighting them a decade later.
The U.S. and current events in Syria is a redo of the U.S. and events in Afghanistan circa 1980s; a U.S. regime change agenda married together with local Islamist agendas, engendering a growth of Islamist terrorists and terrorist organizations, ending in the establishment of an Islamist regime.
We should not be arming anyone in this region. None of these people are our friends. None fight for liberty and freedom. All will eventually turn our weapons on us........
Stop arming muslims.
Any “vetted” pro-American rebels would have few foot soldiers and would face continual de-funding attempts by leftists and libertarian isolationists. Until Americans can recover their will to fight, we must choose between the greater evil of ISIS and the lesser evil of Assad.
Arming al queda allies...what could possibly go wrong?
One more big reason for Americans to arm themselves.
BLOAT!
It’s insanity to arm them. That, or part of a plan to destroy this country.
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They are TERRORISTS!
I agree it’s a crazy idea. But then there’s this agreement: “This time around, The White House and Pentagon agree on the basic outlines of a strategy to attack the Islamic State — one that centers on arming and training proxy forces, including Syrian rebels, Kurdish fighters and the Iraqi army, backed by U.S. and allied air power.” —http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/rift-widens-between-obama-us-military-over-strategy-to-fight-islamic-state/2014/09/18/ebdb422e-3f5c-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html
31,000 against well-armed general populations of millions? Head-choppers heads would be blown off before they could drag you out of your domicile to chop chop. Fax them over our 2nd amendment you fear-mongering, foreign policy psychopaths. Then, call it a day and do us a favor. RESIGN.