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Originally Posted by deltav
Just ignore him, he's a Russian trying to get his oversimplified digs in. While ignoring that Russia (and the Soviets beforehand) supports all manner of unsavory groups if it suits their interests. Neither country has any room to be indignant of the other's actions at this point.
But yeah, I'd guess if there was a rebel faction or any group in Syria that was actually a palatable & realistic ally the USA would go a long ways in helping them out. But there's not, so they are genuinely holding back (*relatively speaking*) in this case. I do think Libya was instructive, as Western weapons did end up in Islamist hands, no doubt about that.
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See that's the problem.. In Afghan there was the Northern Alliance and that's whom we helped prop up and they still today make up the largest part of the Afghanistan Army...
Meanwhile Syria is just lots of various rebel groups nothing like the Northern Alliance that we could actually work with. We might send them some basic equipment at some point, but I can't see us doing much with what they have right now.
We can't just go there and send truck loads of m16's and anti tank weapons, as say "here yea go"..
Meanwhile the other side is getting arms from Russia and bombing cities with it. So who is the real terrorists?