It’s Total Clown Car Time with U.S. Syria Policy
Minutes ago, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 273-to-156 to approve President Obama’s plan to arm “moderate” Syrian rebels. It’s difficult to even express how crazy this policy is in the face of readily available facts:
UPDATE: The Roll Call vote is posted here.
The CIA Skeptical about Arming Rebels
(HuffPost 9/17/14) One Democratic member of Congress said that the CIA has made it clear that it doubts the possibility that the administration’s strategy could succeed.
…the CIA regards the effort as doomed to failure,” the congressman said in an email. “Specifically (again without referring to classified information), the CIA thinks that it is impossible to train and equip a force of pro-Western Syrian nationals that can fight and defeat Assad, al-Nusra and ISIS, regardless of whatever air support that force may receive.”
He added that, as the CIA sees it, the ramped-up backing of rebels is an expansion of a strategy that is already not working. “The CIA also believes that its previous assignment to accomplish this was basically a fool’s errand, and they are well aware of the fact that many of the arms that they provided ended up in the wrong hands,” the congressman said, echoing intelligence sources.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat
In other words, we’re sending arms to the very people who will be the Greatest Hitlers in History in 10 years, which will require us to arm a new generation of rebels, who will then turn on us the decade after. And so on…
“Moderate” Rebels Sign Non-Aggression pact with ISIS
There are legitimate reports that ISIS has signed a non-aggression pact with “moderate” rebel groups in Syria.
“Moderate” Rebels sold one of the beheaded Americans to ISIS
In letters addressed to the Democratic and Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, the Syrian Speaker of Parliament calls on the United States to refrain from arming and training so-called moderate Syrian rebels and from entering into a coalition with countries whose religious ideologies, the Speaker says, has fueled the growth of ISIS. Speaker Jihad al-Lahham also writes that one of the two American journalists beheaded by ISIS was sold to the militant group by the moderate forces. (Do you suppose they might sell their weapons too?) LINK: http://abcnews.go.com/International/top-syrian-warns-congress-moderate-rebels-sell-weapons/story?id=25539314