Giving any kind of help to the Ikwan (MB) in Syria is only aiding and abetting al-Qaeda (AQ). Replacing the genocidal dictator al-Assad with the genocidal dictatorship of the rebel AQ/MB elements fighting al-Assad, is complete ignorance to the point of being asinine bordering on stupidity.When there is no moral leadership in the West, this is the kind of pseudo-leadership decision-making that you get.
FrontPage – As expected the Brits are the first to pull the trigger on this, both in providing the training and being willing to talk about it. That was the way it was in Libya, with the US government never getting around to admitting what was really going on, while the British defense (or defence) chief openly talked about taking out Gaddafi.
The paper shield for all this is that the United States and the United Kingdom are providing training to manage the chaos after/if Assad falls. There’s some grounds for that considering the disaster in the Libyan War, when the US, UK and France destroyed the Libyan government’s forces and turned over the country to a bunch of Islamist militias. Benghazi was a direct result of that.
But there’s no sign that Syria will go any differently. If anything the mess is likely to be worse. Al Qaeda allied militias are already keeping orders in parts of the country. Displacing them using a force commanded by defecting Syrian rebel officers is iffy at best. And that’s assuming that they don’t just hook up anyway, which has happened in the past.
Western training of Syrian rebels is under way in Jordan in an effort to strengthen secular elements in the opposition as a bulwark against Islamic extremism, and to begin building security forces to maintain order in the event of Bashar al-Assad’s fall.
Considering that the Syrian rebels have become a Muslim Brotherhood franchise under Turkish and Qatari supervision, with the apparent consent of Hillary Clinton, it’s hard to believe that these really are secular elements.
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British officials say new European guidelines on the Syrian arms embargo, formally adopted by the EU at the beginning of March, allow military training as long as the ultimate aim of that training is “the protection of civilians.”
In Libya, protection of civilians was used as an excuse for killing Gaddafi and destroying his military…
Stupid is as stupid does. So how’d that R2P (Responsibility to Protect) logic work out for our diplomats in Libya?
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How does replacing one dictatorship with another dictatorship make anything better in the ME?
Related – In Part II of this Glazov Gang episode, the guests discuss US aid to the MB in Egypt and Syria, and the demagogic administration of Skeeter. If Chavez had his Chavistas, does Skeeter now have his Skeetoids?