[txrefugee]

Our Muslim-loving president is sending arms to the Islamists who are burning Christian churches and forcing Christians to convert to Islam or die. How utterly disgusting.

Are Christians in the U.S. going to keep closing their eyes to this persecution of fellow Christians in the Middle East by our country? If we do, the ungodly in our government will eventually feel free to persecute Christians here.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

He is sending arms WE pay for! Like my brother said 10 years ago: When it comes to terrorists, Republicans want to fight them. Democrats want to make them President. I thought he was kidding at the time but he has been proven 1000% right. This Obama is a freakin’ foreign agent for radical Islam and he proves it day after day after day. After he helped them take over Libya then Egypt, what did we expect he would go after next? Syria, and that’s exactly what he is doing right now. WHAT does this guy have to do to get impeached? This is unbelievable.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Unfortunately, this same thing happened n Iraq 10 years ago. Saddam Hussein, like Assad a leader of the Ba'ath party, a secularist, and a son-of-a-birch, pretty much protected the Chaldean Church and the Assyrian Church of the East, if they kept their head down and didn't get subversive. Christian churches actually grew under Saddam, in numbers of believers and numbers of churches.

Now they've been smashed and scattered to the winds. Huge numbers of the fled Iraq to (ironically) Syria; now they're fleeing Syria to God-knows-where.

Seems like every time we upend a good old fashioned tyrant, we get a trampling herd of crazed islamists instead.

I understand why Christians would side with a clod like Assad. He's way better than the competition.

[Chad_the_Impaler]

Are Christians in the U.S. going to keep closing their eyes to this persecution of fellow Christians in the Middle East by our country?

It appears the conflict (and our view of it) is becoming increasingly sectarian in nature.