The Obama Administration’s promise to provide “non-lethal” aid coincides almost perfectly with the point at which the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Syrian National Council (SNC), initially ambivalent about the UN peace deal, began condemning the pact and launching huge attacks on Syrian military targets.
That’s no coincidence, though, as the “non-lethal aid” turns out to have come in the form of huge quantities of high tech weaponry, which the US didn’t directly pay for but which the US is helping to smuggle into the country.
The report arrives as US officials say that they consider the ceasefire a “failure” and a civil war “inevitable.” Indeed it seems to be, now that the rebels are awash in arms from the GCC nations and have tacit US backing to spurn the ceasefire.
On Monday, the rebels attacked Syrian troops around Rastan, killing at least 23 soldiers. Yesterday, they engaged in an even bigger fight along the coast, capturing four UN ceasefire monitors in the process.
US and other western officials have repeatedly blamed the Assad regime for all of the ceasefire violations, and while combatants on both sides have violated it in small measure, the big attacks and the official condemnations of the peace talks have come from the rebels, and the US has been fueling this belligerence.
US is doing this again. US government was illegally arming Nicaragua Contras. This was at least deemed to be illegal in US alone, but arming of other "freedom fighters" later on is taken by majority of US citizenry as normal. This is the case of Syria too. It looks like call for arming Syrian "opposition" was the question of survival in Israel-first dominated US Congress and brought together such seemingly different people as Kerry, Lieberman an McCain. US government is definitely against the peace in Syria. But arming of these terrorists can bring blow-back the same way as arming al-Qaeda in their anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan. Do US politicos care if this jihad hits regular Americans? They do not care about that for sure. Otherwise they would not play with fire again.
Well said though I must point out that the Jews are being setup as the fall guys if the going gets rough.
When Assad finally gets the chance to annihilate these rebels, let's not get upset about it. Please.
Whell thank god you are able to see through what america/israel are doing to destabilise the middle east.