Reports coming out of eastern Syria Monday revealed that several factions within the Syrian opposition force known as the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have pledged services to the Islamic State, the group formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Sources and eyewitnesses said that the FSA has handed over its weapons to the Islamic State in large numbers.
The Free Syrian Army was said to be a “moderate” and “secular” force, which was used as the rationale by U.S. officials to supply the opposition force with weapons and training.
Sources told Homs, Syria-based Zaman Alwasl newspaper that several factions within the FSA, including Ahl Al Athar, Ibin al-Qa’im, and Aisha have pledged to support the Islamic State.
Idiots.
I have a new term: LIL, and it stands for Low Information Legislator, just a STUPID as the voters.
Yes, so we will be arming and training terrorists who will turn their US supplied weapons on Americans, Christians and other minorities wherever they can reach them.
This will end badly.
Oh yea a background check. What is your name? “Mohammad Mohamed Hussein”. Next and your name is? “Mohamed Hussein Mohammad”. Next...Helping Syria in any capacity will not bode well for us. Helping Israel out more would be the most productive outcome and the most efficient for dealing with terrorist. We are stepping into the wrong side of history.
Money down the rathole emerging on the other side to ISIS. Craziness. If we want them dead we have to kill them ourselves and by we I mean those willing and able to do that.
those gop who voted to arm ISIS have no excuses. They can’t claim they were lied to. They trusted Obama vetted reasoning
Active Duty ping.
The Arm Al Qaeda Act.
Who's in a safe district? Who's not? I guarantee that's how these votes split.
UNBELIEVABLE why am I not surprised.
The US Govt has not the slightest ability to discern the “moderateness” or the “radicalness” of any particular faction, and even if they did, this is not a fixed attribute. These are sects and fragments of armies, they can and do shift alliances all the time, they are not in any way above lying to get US arms, they know damned well that the US is desperately looking for a “partner” in their Mideast stumbles to avoid having to bring troops back to Iraq or wherever and they will cheerfully yet deliberately work to deceive the US as to their true aims. ISIS has tremendous funding at the disposal and can buy off any of these factions easily. They also know that once begun, the US will again, be desperately unable to to admit they made an error, so this arming of whatever faction or factions will go on long after being proven wrong, even multiple times, over years. Just a classic boondoggle.
This is will not end well, but we’ll never hear the truth about it. It will ultimately end up in a lot more dead US bodies, that much is a certainty.
Morons.
This is a mistake.
However, in my mind it’s a trade between a couple of powers allowing a form of hegemony in different parts of this overall middle eastern region: A Saudi/US/Sunni alignment and an Iranian/Russian/Shia alignment.
Sunni influence returns to Syria which is led by a Shia Assad.
I wonder what the other players get. Russia probably can count on Ukraine for playing along.