September 13, 2013

Arming the Rebels in Syria

After months of delay, the CIA has begun delivering weapons to Syrian rebels.

After months of delay, the CIA began delivering weapons to Syrian rebels over the last couple of weeks. The deliveries themselves mark an escalation of U.S. involvement in Syria’s civil war, even without our own planes dropping bombs. Some may naïvely hope those arms are going to all the friendly good guys John McCain keeps telling us about, but the reality is that jihadis continue to make up a growing part of the opposition.

The Free Syrian Army is the largest rebel force, and McCain and John Kerry estimate that just 10-15% of its 100,000 fighters are al-Qaida affiliates. Senior U.S. military officials disagree, however, with one saying that Islamist groups now constitute “more than 50%” of the anti-Assad force, “and it’s growing by the day.”

Khaled Saleh of the Syrian Opposition Coalition says the support is welcome, “But if you compare what we are getting compared to the assistance Assad receives from Iran and Russia, we have a long battle ahead of us.” Indeed, even as Vladimir Putin mocked Barack Obama and the U.S. in his bit of New York Times sophistry, and as Putin offered the phony deal on Syrian chemical weapons, he continues to aid his client, Bashar al-Assad.

Meanwhile, to add insult to injury for Barack Obama, Assad tacked on a new condition for turning over his chemical weapons stockpiles: “When we see the United States really wants stability in our region and stops threatening, striving to attack, and also ceases arms deliveries to terrorists, then we will believe that the necessary processes can be finalized,” he told Russian state television. On the other hand, Obama threatens to strike if Assad doesn’t turn over his weapons.

This sad saga just keeps getting worse for our feckless commander in chief.

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