The loss of several Free Syrian Army (FSA) warehouses full of US equipment to the Islamic Front was a big part of the decision by the US to halt direct aid to Syrian rebels.
The FSA has tried to downplay that, insisting the Islamic Front is just “guarding” the warehouses for their now virtually irrelevant fighters. The US undercut that claim today, however, by asking the Islamic Front to return the equipment to the US.
US officials insist they don’t have any specific problems with the Islamic Front, and were open to backing them if they endorsed the Geneva II peace conference and disassociated themselves from al-Qaeda. At the same time, officials say, “we want our stuff back.”
The odds of the Islamic Front agreeing to hand back multiple warehouses of US equipment are virtually nil, however, and that officials even asked is something of a surprise, since it brings yet more attention to just how badly the US “aid for rebels” program has gone.
They didn't used the magic words when asking for the return of their WMD back, "PRETTY PLEASE."
Sure they'll give the weapons back…bullets first.
The US government has very little practice in asking itself questions like, "if the situation were reversed, would we give back weapons we had seized from the Islamic Front?"
If US officials knew how to think using the most basic concept of morality, the golden rule, they could avoid asking questions like this, which only serve to display their inability to even slightly apply the same standards to others as they do themselves.
Ray McGovern described an exchange long ago:
"you know, if we lose [pause] this is a war crime."
"We're not gonna lose."
There's putting oneself in another's shoes for ya.
ROFL! I bet this latest US request that the Islamist return the seized weapons, will be equally rewarding as that other US request for Iran to return the captured RQ-170 surveillance drone.
ROFL! I bet this latest US request that the Islamist return the seized weapons, will be equally rewarding as that other US request for Iran to return the captured RQ-170 surveillance drone.
ROFL! I bet this latest US request that the Islamist return the seized weapons, will be equally rewarding as that other US request for Iran to return the captured RQ-170 surveillance drone.
You don't know how it feels when you send someone cookies and they're actually eaten. Remember there's billions in 'missing' stuff in Afghanistan as well. Find one more instance of that kind of thing and try telling me it's just 'incompetence.'
They want the 'civil war' going on forever and they didn't care who'd be furthering that. Hey, how 'bout saying to AQ herself we'll-back-you-if-you-just-repudiate-AQ? Then tell us just how 'careful' you're being about 'stuff' not landing somewhere 'surprising.'
You don't know how it feels when you send someone cookies and they're actually eaten. Remember there's billions in 'missing' stuff in Afghanistan as well. Find one more instance of that kind of thing and try telling me it's just 'incompetence.'
They want the 'civil war' going on forever and they didn't care who'd be furthering that. Hey, how 'bout saying to AQ herself we'll-back-you-if-you-just-repudiate-AQ? Then tell us just how 'careful' you're being about 'stuff' not landing somewhere 'surprising.'