

Problems with aid to Syrians glaring

11:20 PM, Jun. 23, 2013  |  Comments
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The U.S. is ramping up aid to Syrians and opposition forces. There are three glaring problems with this.

One is that the numbers of supposed casualties (100-150 dead in multiple incidents) from chemical weapons suggest the whole exercise is a fraud.

Chemical munitions are large-scale area weapons. They aren't used to target a handful of villagers or squads of soldiers, which is what would have had to be done to produce such a very small handful of casualties - the military equivalent of using a pile-driver to swat a fly.

Second, the Syrian rebels openly include elements of al-Qaeda. Excuse me, but haven't we been sending troops off to fight, kill and die for nearly 12 years in opposition to al-Qaeda? If it is now OK to arm al-Qaeda, just what - or who - have we been fighting for - really?

Third, the timing of this is ever so convenient for the administration, coming on the heels of the disclosure that the NSA has been spying on us - not actual, suspected or possible terrorists, but everyone.

Nothing like a neat foreign crisis (as if we didn't have enough already) to distract the public.

Alan Sabrosky


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