[HOLY S**T!] U.S. to provide military support to Syrian Rebels

[WarriorSoul]

"While the lethality of these attacks make up only a small portion of the catastrophic loss of life in Syria, which now stands at more than 90,000 deaths, the use of chemical weapons violates international norms and crosses clear red lines that have existed within the international community for decades," Rhodes added.

The administration also appeared to indicate that it was stepping up its support of the rebels, who have been calling for the United States and others provide arms need to battle al-Assad's forces.

"Put simply, the Assad regime should know that its actions have led us to increase the scope and scale of assistance that we provide to the opposition, including direct support to the (rebel Supreme Military Council). These efforts will increase going forward," Rhodes' statement said.

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You got to be kidding me, we don't need to help those 'rebels' (read: terrorists). Why the hell do WE have to always get involve in things we don't need to be involved in? I say let that area sort itself out. WTF are the Arabic nations doing about this??????

We shouldn't waste any money or government troops in that part of the world. It's not worth it. We're NOT the world police.

[The Tase]

U.S. been at war in 216 of our 237 years....


smdh....

[-jose-]

Here we go again...

Giving weapons to rebels is like the police giving weapons to the Cribs so they could defend themselves from the Bloods

basically it's a bad idea

[spytactics]

Here we go again...

Giving weapons to rebels is like the police giving weapons to the Cribs so they could defend themselves from the Bloods

basically it's a bad idea

Very bad analogy...smh

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

Here we go again...

Giving weapons to rebels is like the police giving weapons to the Cribs so they could defend themselves from the Bloods

basically it's a bad idea

You mean "Crips"? ...hahaha

The U.S will give arms to the rebels, because Iran and Russia are arming the Assad regime and so the pawn game begins. Powerful countries playing games with the lives of people who are just trying to live in a civilized world.

When the Assad regime falls, then the people in place will be as bad or worse because they are Islamic extremists. Then the U.S will be back to square one and our grandchildren will be fighting another war 30 years from now.

[Russian Crushin]

You mean "Crips"? ...hahaha

The U.S will give arms to the rebels, because Iran and Russia are arming the Assad regime and so the pawn game begins. Powerful countries playing games with the lives of people who are just trying to live in a civilized world.

When the Assad regime falls, then the people in place will be as bad or worse because they are Islamic extremists. Then the U.S will be back to square one and our grandchildren will be fighting another war 30 years from now.

This has already happened before yet they keep doing this bull****. Soon Americans will be getting kille by the wepaons we gave them

[BetterCallSaul]

A great way to put guns in the arms of terrorists. The U.S government is pretty backwards when it comes to learning from past mistakes. You can include the British government in that too.

[-jose-]

You mean "Crips"? ...hahaha

The U.S will give arms to the rebels, because Iran and Russia are arming the Assad regime and so the pawn game begins. Powerful countries playing games with the lives of people who are just trying to live in a civilized world.

When the Assad regime falls, then the people in place will be as bad or worse because they are Islamic extremists. Then the U.S will be back to square one and our grandchildren will be fighting another war 30 years from now.

Yeeaahh that's what I meant

[Golden]

Very poor decision IMO and just adding fuel to this increasingly regional and sectarian conflict. With Hezbollah now committing pretty much fully to the war Assad has managed to roll back the rebels on a few fronts. Even if the rebels manage to "win" it ill just leave a broken sectarian state where fundamentalists try to establish a Sunni Islamic state over the pro-secular rebels.

God knows hat will happen to the Alawites and Christians if Assad falls. Probably create a de-facto state along the north Lebanon border and Syrian coastline in the west. At least the Kurds have pretty much established sovereignty in the North East and even now they are starting to have more and more clashes with the rebels; who themselves are becoming more divided along Sunni fundamentalist and pro-secular factions. And unfortunately the Islamists are the strongest faction of the rebel coalition that we are now going to arm.

Worst thing is, if Assad falls this war will spread to the shia-sunni divides in Iraq and Lebanon. And these 2 countries are already starting to see serious cracks emerging.

[-jose-]

Obama deserves another Nobel Peace prize award for this