US to increase aid to Syrian rebels after key group merges with al-Qaeda

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[chessplayer]

For some reason, American politicians in both parties want to see the US intervene to some extent in Syria’s civil war, even after the disastrous intervention in Libya that almost made Mali an al-Qaeda state. Only a French military intervention prevented that outcome, and that may still only be temporary, but more on that in a minute. The Associated Press reports that the Obama administration will increase “non-lethal” aid to Syrian rebels in the near future, although the timing is still murky:

Er, this isn’t “military-style” equipment. It’s actual military equipment, and while it won’t kill anyone directly, its use isn’t for hunting squirrels and possum, either. The use of that equipment is intended to make the rebel forces more lethal, and its provision allows the rebels to use their existing funds on guns and artillery to pair up with all that non-lethal equipment.

And just who are the rebel forces fighting in Syria? The most effective of them, Jabhat al-Nusra, just announced a merger with al-Qaeda in Iraq, the very forces we spent most of a decade fighting just across the border.

[MNGal]

I remember the good old days when the US government didn’t fund terrorist organizations that had perpetrated deadly attacks on the country. My, how far we have come from that time.

[rktman]

Yup. This way they’ll be stocked up and able to kill us in the future. But hey, don’t judge all muslims by the few crazies but DO judge all American law abiding (citizens)victim gun owners by the actions of a few crazies. Makes perfect sense.

[Parmy]

Why, I ask you? Why?

[Don Corleone]

We have a White House and State Department dedicated to the destruction of American sovereignty and superiority. Look at what they have done already and look at who has been in charge as it was being done.

[Williams]

We should have done all this when we were in Iraq with a huge military force, and we should have insisted on installing non radical governments. But that would have made sense. Instead we invaded Iraq but left the region to the extremists.

[Iron Munro]

Giving away money and spending money we don't have has become an addiction to Obama, other socialists and democrats, and RINOs.

Like drug addicts around crack cocaine, like alcoholics with a bottle of booze, they have no control - they are totally mindless when it comes to throwing away money they extort from taxpayers and future generations.

They should all be sent to some sort of long term rehab for addicts, preferably in a maximum security prison.

[veracious]

At best such a nation is retarded; at worst it is completely bought and governed by its enemy. How do we feel spending, what did I read the other day, $3T fighting AQ. Now our nation is funding AQ, “operations” in Syria? I have seen little in all of my study of world history as insane as what we have become.

[justa-hairyape]

I remember the good old days when the US government didn’t fund terrorist organizations that had perpetrated deadly attacks on the country.

Technically since DC is now giving money to Al Qeada terrorist, it is actually now against the law for us to give money to DC. We would be aiding and abetting terrorism.