You would think that if you are providing money, weapons, and training to the “rebels” you would be in a position to tell them and your Saudi and Turkish partners that your help is conditioned on the rebels protecting the Christians. You could tell them, most Americans are Christians and if you want our help, the Christians have to be protected. Do not touch a hair on their heads.
You would think. And our Turkish and Saudi and Syrian allies, out of respect for us and because they value our help, would go to great lengths to make sure noncombatant Christians were not harmed.
You would think.
I’ve said all along give the Christians guns-—as many as we’re giving anyone else. Let them defend themselves. As with the Christians in Egypt, if they’re not willing to defend themselves, maybe they’re not worth saving by jawboning or anything else. Sometimes that cheek-turning just ain’t the way to get along in the world and there needs to be some “smiting” to keep everybody honest. And if outsiders are the ones causing the problem wouldn’t you think they’d be at a disadvantage——simply by not knowing their way around, not knowing where food might be, etc.? Should be an easy job for determined locals to sweep them up. But there’s about 20 million Syrians left to fight out those old grudges so let ‘ém slug it out.
Obama stated unequivocally that no matter what he would stand with Islam. That about covers it.
So we need to pray for those Christians, that help arise where they are and that God exercise his authority through prayer, and of course we should send our Senators our cries for their deliverance...