Shortly after President Obama revealed his “plans” to start arming Syrian rebels, Congress began to balk, noting that the plans lacked any real details on how it was supposed to work, or how those arms would be kept away from al-Qaeda.
Two weeks later Congress is said to still be holding up the scheme because the administration still hasn’t addressed the concerns. Officials continue to press Congress to relent, but seem reluctant to address their issues.
That doesn’t seem like an accident, and some familiar with the situation say that the president’s plan was never really all that specific, the issues can’t be addressed because they haven’t planned for them.
The White House has openly expressed hope to start seeing weapons on the ground by the end of the month, but that seems increasingly unlikely as the rebels grow more divided and Congress can’t be convinced to ignore the very real problem of arming al-Qaeda.
As always with these news about Syria coming from DC, we can expect in the next few days to hear that Congress has authorized the immediate shipment of weapons to Al-Qaeda in Syria et al.
As any other wars created by USA federal government or its entity as state department, CIA and etc. the Syrian war is a lost war. The empire so as its servants as Saudis and others a like know that, as USA-EU last resort is for terrorists and Neo Islamic fascists to be supported to wine a war, they also know that Syrian war is lost because they never count on people's resistance, from Vietnam to Syria, that is because these regimes are not elected to work for the people, they work for corporations.