Arming The Enemy....

It seems our President is close to giving the OK to begin arming the Syrian rebel forces fighting against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

This announcement was good news for the Jabhat al Nusra Front, which is one of the rebel groups.  Its chief recently swore allegiance to Sheik Ayman al-Zawahri, who is generally regarded as having replaced Osama bin Laden as the head of Al Qaeda.

Sheik Omar Bakri, off Lebanon, says states must be governed by Muslim religious law and says al-Qaeda has assisted al Nusra for some time.

“They provided them early on with technical, military and financial support , especially when it came to setting up networks of foreign jihadis who were brought into Syria,” Bakri says. “There will certainly be greater coordination between the two groups.”

The United States government last December identified al Nusra as a terrorist entity.  And now we’re going to give them arms?

The Obama Administration has said that its goal is to send arms only to non-terrorist troops fighting in Syria.  Yeah.  Like that will work.  I’m sure he only intended to send arms to Mexico to non-violent drug cartels too.

Tamer Mouhieddine, spokesman for the Syrian Free Army, a force made up of Syrian soldiers who have defected, said the recent announcements would not change his group’s attitude toward al Nusra.

“The rebels in Syria have one common enemy — Bashar Assad — and they will collaborate with any faction allowing them to topple his regime,” he said.

So we’re now going to fight Al Qaeda on one front while helping and arming them on another.  Yup.  Makes sense to me.  We give war planes and tanks to the Muslim Brotherhood after they threaten to wipe out Israel.  Why should we not give weapons to Al Qaeda?  After all – they probably promised not to use them against us in the future…