War

Why is it now time to defund the Syrian rebels? We should have never have funded them. This is more info on how the rebels have rejected western attempts at control but love the weapons the US has been giving them for two years, which they will use against Americans as soon as possible.

"Once you go down this rabbit hole, you wind up in a kind of Syrian Wonderland, where things get curiouser and curiouser.
There we learn this radicalization is the fault of those unreliable Americans, who have "betrayed" the rebels by not bombing and failing to arm them with the really big guns. According to Syrian National Council spokesman Louay al-Mokdad, "they told us they signed this because they lost all hope in the international community. They said: ‘We are really tired, Bashar al-Assad is killing us, all the West is betraying us, and they want to negotiate with the regime over our blood.’"
Yes, those poor babies are tired – after all, beheading infidels really takes it out of you! It’s hard on the arms. Burning churches, destroying entire villages, not to mention car-bombs – what could be more exhausting? I mean, have a heart!"

This is our government's fault, but for the opposite reason. Arming the rebels empowered the jihadists who now control the movement. Remember how the US invasion of Iraq brought al Qaeda in on its coattails? This is worse.

"So does this mean our recently stepped-up effort to arm the rebels is a non-starter? Not so fast: President Obama recently signed a waiver exempting the Syrian rebels from a law prohibiting US aid to terrorist groups."

It's official. Obama is arming terrorists.

"It all works out very neatly for both sides: the rebels get their guns, and the administration gets a fresh justification for the Surveillance State, because, you know, the Bad Guys really are out to get us. Yes, war is a racket, as Gen. Smedley Butler famously opined, but more than just money is involved. "

Upside-down.

McCain's ties to Syrian jihadists.