al-Qaida obamablunders Syria

DANIEL GREENFIELD: OBAMA TO ARM AL-QAIDA IN SYRIA…….

There are no good sides in Syria, just other shades of worse.

If you would have told me just after 9/11 a sitting US president 14 yrs later would be arming these 7th century throwbacks, I would have called you crazy. Here is Dr.Andrew Bostom who has been saying the exact same thing all along:

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OBAMA TO ARM AND AID AL QAEDA IN SYRIA

“Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of”

We have a new entry in the “Who’s going to support terrorists more” sweepstakes. After Putin decided to back Iran’s Shiite terrorists with air strikes, Obama has decided to back Sunni terrorists, many of them allied with Al Qaeda, with air strikes.

The Obama administration backed away Friday from a failed effort to stand up a rebel force in Syria, as the Pentagon announced plans to instead aid existing rebel units that officials believe have better odds of weakening the Islamic State…

The overhaul of U.S. strategy comes as the Obama administration scrambles to adjust to Moscow’s entry into the already crowded Syrian battle space. Russian planes and forces are now backing an offensive by troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against opposition units, complicating the United States’ own air operations over Syria.

The Pentagon will now provide equipment and weapons to vetted Syrian units “so that over time they can make a concerted push into territory still controlled by ISIL,” Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said. ISIL is another name for the Islamic State, which now controls a wide swath of Syria and Iraq.

The media is skipping over a lot of history here.

Obama only decided to train a vetted rebel force because even he realized that it was impossible to vet any of the “moderate Syrian opposition” that the Smart Power crowd wanted him to back. But I suspect the roots of the failure of the vetted army were aided by Muslim Brotherhood advocates and their sympathizers who want the US to back the Jihadists.

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