For a long time, Free Syrian Army (FSA) complaints about US aid were that they weren’t sending enough weapons. Now that the spigot is loose, the FSA’s leadership is being forced to rethink its old position.
FSA Brigadier General Abdelilah al-Bashir, one of the top leaders of the Supreme Military Council of the secular rebel faction, says the growing US arms shipments are undermining the FSA and creating myriad Somali-style warlords.
Brig. Gen. Bashir’s complaints seem to center around the US bypassing the ineffectual FSA council and are directly shipping arms to various fighters on the ground.
Those shipments aim at giving the US some more control over the rank-and-file rebel soldiers, but is also making them less dependent on the FSA leadership, and more inclined to operate independently.
US arms are chiefly going to “secular” rebels, who amount to a small minority of the rebellion. Israeli military intelligence has put the rebellion’s Islamist factions at about 80 percent of their overall fighting force. The US has offered almost no information on who it is sending the arms to, but some indications are that some of the weapons are winding up in the hands of Islamist factions.
Geez, "brigadier general" Abdelilah al-Bashir (since when do terrorists give themselves lofty titles?), I bet you didn't expect that, huh? US foreign policy seems to be full of surprises to some.
Overall, this is nothing new. Nearly all radical Islamist groups since the early '80s have been creations of the US government or its puppets.
What Antiwar is selling here as "critics", is actually the pure *intention* of US foreign policy – or better policy of the corporate powers behind the government.
Same as in Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yugoslavia/Kosovo, Ukraine, Mali … I guess it is just a new strategy
well it is exactly what the zionists wanted….all nations broken up to never challenge them and thier henchmen
If Syria is breaking up it will benefit the expansion of Eretz Israel. I wonder if those muslim/arab nations involved in supporting the "rebels" are fully considering the outcome of that..
What do you expect when Saudi-Arabia (etc.?) did empty its prisons, by sending its criminals to Syria ??
Not only the NATO proxy mercenaries do loot as criminals, the large scale looting of complete factory equipment shows that not only some individual criminals are behind this, but that it is covered or even done by the financing countries of this wars:
In Afghanistan we recruited, trained, armed Muslims like Osama bin Laden – how did that work out for US?
I'm sure the PNAC council of elders is just giddy to see their plans all coming to fruition. The question remains though, will these "short-sighted" planners still smile when the entire ME erupts and the price of fossil fuels skyrocket to the point where the common man in America can no longer afford gas for his car or fuel for his furnace – and America comes to a screeching halt? Will they still smile when the common man goes looking for those responsible?
Very little of US fuel comes from the Middle East. Keep in mind this chart is only imports & no domestic production. http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nu…
Doesn't matter where it comes from…when the cartels start raising prices, prices everywhere are going to go up. And if you think they won't do it just to screw with the Americans, think again. The Americans have few friends anymore…deservedly so. Khrushchev may not have been wrong after all…
consider that Bush and others belong to the US oil mafia – they will have profits of rising oil prices!
I've been reading a lot of peoples' comments and articles about Iraq, now that it is collapsing, and I am amazed that nobody seems to have understood that the only Lesson to be learned from Iraq (and Afghanistan, and Libya, and Syria, and Vietnam, and in the near future Ukraine) is EMPIRE!
This current Disguised Global Empire HQed in our former country, like all Empires, is; illegal, illegitimate, immoral, looting, lying, militarist, deceitful, murderous, propagandist, co-opting, spying, elitist, hierarchical, war-mongering, plutocratic, oligarchic, autocratic, authoritarian, totalitarian, "inverted totaliatarianist" [Wolin], destructive of our environment, unsustainable, poisonous, death-spiraling, existential, etc., etc., etc.
But of all the features of all previous and lesser Empires, this first "truly Global Empire" (and last Empire on earth) is most significant in being the only Empire to have so perfectly leveraged its wannabe global power and scope to actually achieve Global Empire in reality — and it has achieved this most clearly by being better at being DISGUISED than any previous Empire ever dreamed!
Best to the 3-5% of the truly informed vanguard of Americans (within the 99%) in this fast expanding 'Pro-democracy Anti-Empire' educational and non-violent revolutionary movement (in the Green Party) against this deceitful and Disguised Global EMPIRE, which is "Occupying" our country and yet can't so easily be identified, by the propagandized and deluded majority, as wearing Red Coats, Red Stars, nor funny looking Nazi helmets —- quite YET!
Liberty, democracy, justice, and equality
Over
Violent ('Vichy' disguised fascist)
Empire,
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine