You would argue wrong. All I am describing is what the USA has already done. As to relevance, Putin made it clear that he believes we already are.
While we may be providing some surplus weapons, the control of them will be those guiding the rebels.
What we were providing were Ghadaffi's weapons by the boatload (literally): including 20,000 hand held SAMs, RPGs, heavy machine guns, and possibly chemical weapons. In the hands of Hizbullah, that is something not to be disregarded.
We have trained special forces in all those nations noted above.
We have Special Forces in Syria without Congressional authorization? News to me. Sources please.
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The trained special forces in Syria are Arab, trained by Americans. I did not intend to say they are our troops. They are Qatari and maybe some Saudi as well.
http://rt.com/news/stratfor-syria-secret-wikileaks-989/
Stratfor leaks: NATO commandos in illegal special ops in Syria
The information comes from a hacked email from leading private US intelligence agency Stratfor, whose correspondence has been released by Wikileaks since February 27. The email appears to be written from the address of Reva Bhalla (bhalla@stratfor.com), the company’s director of analysis, for internal use, and details a confidential Pentagon meeting in December. The consultation is alleged to have been attended by senior analysts from the US Air Force, and representatives from its chief allies, France and the United Kingdom
The author of the letter claims that US officials “said without saying that SOF [special operation forces] teams (presumably from the US, UK, France, Jordan and Turkey) are already on the ground, focused on recce [reconnaissance] missions and training opposition forces.” A little later the US army experts expand on the role of the undercover commandos: “the idea ‘hypothetically’ is to commit guerrilla attacks, assassination campaigns, try to break the back of the Alawite forces, elicit collapse from within.”