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US-backed rebel group criticises Syria strikes.....

Well it didn't take long.....The Rebels are out criticizing the Air Strikes. The very same ones that Kerry said we were going to train. The others still want the pressure on Assad. How do you think this affects things going forward with the money BO wants to give to these MB Backed Sunni Rebels?


A Syrian rebel group that has reportedly received weapons from the United States criticised air strikes Tuesday by a US-led coalition against jihadists in the war-torn country. The Hazm Movement, in a statement posted on their Twitter account, said the strikes would undermine the armed opposition and benefit President Bashar al-Assad's regime. They described the strikes as "an attack on national sovereignty that undermines the Syrian revolution".

The Hazm Movement is among a small number of rebel groups reported to have received US weapons earlier this year, and was among those cited by US Secretary of State John Kerry last week as likely to receive US arms and training in coming months. Syria's opposition National Coalition, a key political grouping, welcomed the US-led strikes on Tuesday, but also urged the international community to keep up pressure on Assad.....snip~

US-backed rebel group criticises Syria strikes

And they would be right.
 
Libs that don't know their history spent a lot of time after 9-11-01 accusing Reagan of arming the Mujahideen not knowing it was a liberal who was actually behind it.



ah come on now.....

Us progressives spend a lot of time accusing.......

period.

Even in this thread, about arming rebels now and the historical consequences we see this
These are also the people that McCain and Graham wanted to arm two years ago.

Oh that sure makes it all right to do it now.

You could say that Obama forgot to get his shoes shined and twenty progressives would pipe up to announce that Bush never wore shoes.
 
Well it didn't take long.....The Rebels are out criticizing the Air Strikes. The very same ones that Kerry said we were going to train. The others still want the pressure on Assad. How do you think this affects things going forward with the money BO wants to give to these MB Backed Sunni Rebels?


A Syrian rebel group that has reportedly received weapons from the United States criticised air strikes Tuesday by a US-led coalition against jihadists in the war-torn country. The Hazm Movement, in a statement posted on their Twitter account, said the strikes would undermine the armed opposition and benefit President Bashar al-Assad's regime. They described the strikes as "an attack on national sovereignty that undermines the Syrian revolution".

The Hazm Movement is among a small number of rebel groups reported to have received US weapons earlier this year, and was among those cited by US Secretary of State John Kerry last week as likely to receive US arms and training in coming months. Syria's opposition National Coalition, a key political grouping, welcomed the US-led strikes on Tuesday, but also urged the international community to keep up pressure on Assad.....snip~

US-backed rebel group criticises Syria strikes

So...this particular rebel group is upset because we are attacking ISIS. Perhaps that's because ISIS doesn't like Assad and the rebels see this a hindering their fight.

Now...these are the people who Obama wants to be his "boots on the ground". Yeah...they might help Obama...they might not. If they do, they'll want something in return. Perhaps they will want the US to attack Assad with air strikes?

I'm thinking Obama trying to get these guys to do his fighting for him will be a tricky, touchy, dangerous endeavor. I wish him luck.
 
Wasn't the Taliban created by Pakistan intelligence ?

Indeed, Pakistan was the biggest supporters. But Operation Cyclone, was the US policy to decidedly arm the militant Islamists in Afghanistan rather than the moderate elements. This practice for decades now,, it began in 1979, has bitten us in the ass repeatedly.
 
Support of the Mujahideen created a power vacuum that gave rise to the Taliban. US interference has been creating consequences for decades.



And even that is not clear cut. The ever changing allegiances within the rebel movements are still not fully understood as the western world continues to read Arab culture through western eyes. I was once told by a Lebanese exchange student in international studies that the phrase "the enemy of my friend is my friend, the friend of my enemy is my enemy. My "friend" today may be agreeing to not attack me today, tomorrow brings new light
 
And even that is not clear cut. The ever changing allegiances within the rebel movements are still not fully understood as the western world continues to read Arab culture through western eyes. I was once told by a Lebanese exchange student in international studies that the phrase "the enemy of my friend is my friend, the friend of my enemy is my enemy. My "friend" today may be agreeing to not attack me today, tomorrow brings new light

And you bring a very good point. Syria being a glaring example of that with the morphing of these groups, making alliances, dissolving them, coming in from Libya, Lebanon and elsewhere, quite the cluster foxtrot!
 
Its as reflexive as it is boring at this point.



It passed boring and rounded to nauseating in the first term.

It displays the real truth, they have no ethic, no tenet, merely PR.

Have you noticed none of these gerbils has jumped in to defend Obama's stupid decision not to seek congressional approval? Just like when he didn't say "if you like your plan...."

That's because no other president in history has ever jumped headlong into that sewage laden gutter, they can't say "Bush did it to" as the last guy who didn't was this fellow who has a rather ugly reputation even though he did end the Vietnam war and go to China.

They aren't comfortable saying "Nixon did it too!" for some reason.
 
It passed boring and rounded to nauseating in the first term.

It displays the real truth, they have no ethic, no tenet, merely PR.

Have you noticed none of these gerbils has jumped in to defend Obama's stupid decision not to seek congressional approval? Just like when he didn't say "if you like your plan...."

That's because no other president in history has ever jumped headlong into that sewage laden gutter, they can't say "Bush did it to" as the last guy who didn't was this fellow who has a rather ugly reputation even though he did end the Vietnam war and go to China.

They aren't comfortable saying "Nixon did it too!" for some reason.


Precisely. The "Reluctant Warrior" label the media is trying to assign him is humorous as well.
 
And you bring a very good point. Syria being a glaring example of that with the morphing of these groups, making alliances, dissolving them, coming in from Libya, Lebanon and elsewhere, quite the cluster foxtrot!

Hey Montecresto, you ever hear of the AGITATORS ?

Not the community organizer type of agitators but they are like two peas in a pod. I'm referring to the National Endowment for Democracy, the International Republican Institute, Director of National Intelligence and most of all FREEDOM HOUSE.

Think of John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Donald Rumsfeld, etc. etc. etc. The Agitators just to name a few.
Think of Georgia, the Ukraine, Arab Spring, Libya, Syria, etc. Freedom House and the other agitators fingerprints are all over these places.
 
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