The article claimed the fighters are secular, it seems the US government has more intel than you. Yes, we really need to be involved in dictators slaughtering their own people, we are morally obligated circumstance and context permits intervention. I don't care what we can afford, the US standard of living is too damn high. Well, when the transition government, under the guidance of the UN, starts bombing their own people with the airforce, then we know they are just as bad.
You don't seem to be seeing the big picture here. The UN supporting the transitional government instead of Iran supporting a dictator. Which do you think is better?
We already know they are bad.....they have massacred Christians. The Rebels don't even acknowledge the Oppositional leadership. They wont back the Free Syrian Army Faction. Jabhat al-Nusra has the backing of most of the Rebels. The Muslim Brotherhood is also involved. Moreover Qatar and the Saud are bankrolling their Sunni Brothers. Yet Neither one.....the Saudi or Qatar themselves would dare attack Syria. Both could team up and it wouldn't matter. Knowing they would get their azzes kicked and stomped on. Let their Azzes pay for all their Sunni brothers. Let them be the ones to get all involved as it should be. It's their War, on the bottom line with Sunni and Shi'te.
Syrian rebels defy US and pledge allegiance to jihadi group.....
Rebel groups across Syria are defying the United States by pledging their allegiance to a group that Washington will designate today a terrorist organization for its alleged links to al-Qaeda.
A total of 29 opposition groups, including fighting "brigades" and civilian committees, have signed a petition calling for mass demonstrations in support of Jabhat al-Nusra, an Islamist group which the White House believes is an offshoot of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
The petition is promoting the slogan "No to American intervention, for we are all Jabhat al-Nusra" and urges supporters to "raise the Jabhat al-Nusra flag" as a "thank you".
Although Jabhat al-Nusra remains separate from the Free Syrian Army, many FSA leaders now recognise its strength and order their forces to cooperate with it.
Even mainstream opposition activists expressed anger at what they claimed was America's last-minute attempt to "muscle in on their revolution".
"It is terrible timing on the part of the United States," said Mulham Jundi, who works with the opposition charity Watan Syria. "By calling Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists, the US is legitimising the Syrian regime's bombardment of cities like Aleppo. Now the government can say it is attacking terrorists."
The rise of Jabhat al-Nusra represents the Americans' worst fear – they refused to arm the rebels earlier in the conflict to avoid weapons falling into the hands of jihadists, only to find that in their absence, jihadi groups well-funded by supporters in the Gulf have risen to prominence.
The West attempted to rectify this at the weekend by backing the formation of a new FSA command structure at a meeting in Turkey. Its new leadership, which sidelines former commanders such as Gen Mustafa al-Sheikh and Col Riad al-Assad, includes senior figures without a regime background. Many are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood or even more radical Salafi movements, but are thought to be men with whom the West "can do business".....snip~
Syrian rebels defy US and pledge allegiance to jihadi group - Telegraph
