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Syrian rebels report new shipments of heavy weapons, credit U.S. influence
Washington Post ^
| June 21, 2013
| By Loveday Morris
Posted on 06/21/2013 9:45:56 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Supporting our “moderate” terrorist friends...what could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
06/21/2013 9:50:26 PM PDT
by
ogen hal
(First amendment or reeducation camp)
To: Brad from Tennessee
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.
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posted on
06/21/2013 9:52:26 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Fight the culture of nothing.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
So 0bama wants to confiscate arms in America to send to jihadists working on The Caliphate?
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posted on
06/21/2013 9:53:26 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Mike Darancette
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posted on
06/21/2013 9:53:43 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
I’m sure the obama administration made the Syrian rebels go through thorough background checks before giving them the weapons /sarcasm
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posted on
06/21/2013 9:56:00 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: Brad from Tennessee
Gosh, I just hate it when we arm those who have sworn to destroy us!
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posted on
06/21/2013 9:56:08 PM PDT
by
originalbuckeye
(Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
To: Mike Darancette
Darn that George Bush!
I’m sure this policy started under him and no we will have to set up a committee to sort it out.
Poor Obama having to keep cleaning up his messes. < SARC>.
To: lowbridge
That’s brilliant!
We need to document the rebels and have a background check for each.
And bty the way, why would they need a 30 round clip?
Please tell me that we are not sending anything like that!
To: Brad from Tennessee
So the US has become, like, the main terrorist sponsor state?
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posted on
06/21/2013 10:07:55 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
To: Hardraade
Yes. Kinda. Sorta, maybe. Nah, never. The soviet influence is nothing to the lower Syrians. Just ask ‘em, or President Obama.
To: Hardraade
[So the US has become, like, the main terrorist sponsor state?]
So far this year we've given Egypt a squadron of F-16’s, at least 30 M-1 Abrams tanks, and Kerry just handed them $1.3 billion without congressional approval.
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posted on
06/21/2013 10:30:23 PM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
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?
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posted on
06/21/2013 11:39:11 PM PDT
by
volunbeer
(We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
To: Brad from Tennessee
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.
To: volunbeer
It wont end well and do people think they will just turn in their weapons after they win?Isn't this the same kind of deal the Russians had with the Taliban in Afghanistan? I hear life is wonderful there, now.
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posted on
06/21/2013 11:46:50 PM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: tacticalogic
It’s peachy. We built schools with desks so the Jihadists won’t have to sit on the floor for terror training after they kick the students out and kill the teachers.
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posted on
06/21/2013 11:58:34 PM PDT
by
volunbeer
(We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
To: Brad from Tennessee
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.
To: Kennard
[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.]
Even if the new order promised to protect Christians the more radical factions, embedded in a newly constituted police and military, would make life unbearable for them.
In Iraq, where the Shia dominate, more than half the Christians have left because nobody can guarantee their safety.
The post-colonial Middle Eastern leaders, including Assad's father, were secularists. This reflected the “modernist” view that theocracies were doomed to perpetual medievalism.
Now the fundamentalists are poised to be the new establishment across the whole region. This will be a dark age, at least as seen from the outside.
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posted on
06/22/2013 12:35:56 AM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Now the fundamentalists are poised to be the new establishment across the whole region.... due to Saudi oil money, extending all the way to the White House.
To: Brad from Tennessee
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.
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posted on
06/22/2013 2:13:50 AM PDT
by
3Fingas
(Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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