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Originally Posted by deltav
Sure, here's a NYT piece from back in February about the Saudis funneling Croation arms left over from the Yugoslav war to the rebels, with probable assistance from Jordan & the UAE. There are other well-researched stories on this out there, but this one gives a decent glimpse how they're probably being funneled:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/wo...-in-syria.html
Those countries have accelerated military buildup in recent years pretty dramatically to counter an ascendant Iran, in a way the Syrian conflict is a proxy war for all of them.
As for "us" arming & supporting them, I agree it opens a whole can of worms. If we could somehow only support the Kurds and the other few secular groups I might be in favor, but again in Libya that didn't work whatsoever and it seems like the Islamists have etched out a dominant position among the rebels. And that's why everyone's treading *very* carefully there right now, there's no easy way out & it could turn into a regional war that dwarfs anything going on so far. |
ahh that's why, sorry. Say "Saudi" and you might as well be saying "USA". same with kuwait etc
people are treading carefully due to the Arab Spring.. was very hard for 'them' to spin that in a way that could be deemed beneficial, and yet the lid keeps popping off. (renewed egypt protests etc)
Think in the next 2 years you're gonna see another series of immolation, and this time replacing your puppets with x-cia agents isn't going to go over so well