warmonger1981 wrote:The problem I have is the FSA will more than likely use these resources against the US in the future like Afghanistan did after the Afghan war.
It's extremely unlikely that these small arms will be used against the United States. The FSA is pro-USA, and pro-Social-Democracy (like European democracy). I do not understand why you think that this is like Afghanistan. In Afghanistan we armed Muslim Extremists to fight against a Soviet Occupation, then we meddled in their affairs after they earned their freedom. This was about 4,500 miles or so from Syria.
In Syria, we are arming a Democratic, non-sectarian, non-religious force against a tyrannical president and against the muslim extremists, like those from Afghanistan. The US can't really meddle here with any rebuilding either, because France, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and others are involved here. They all want a stable country on their borders, and they wont tolerate a war zone for very long. We also wont have any troops or anything in Syria. All we are doing is giving a few hundred fighters training and small arms, with a rocket launcher here and there.
In reality the Muslims in Syria have more in common with the Muslims of South Eastern Europe than they do with the Muslims of Afghanistan. And in Syria, we are arming the FSA, which is made up of Muslims of various ethnic groups, Christians, and others. No extremist is getting a single pistol from us. The FSA has no goals of becoming a political group, rather they want to bring about Democratic elections. In Afghanistan, the Taliban wanted to seize control of the government. So did and does al-Qaeda.
warmonger1981 wrote:What interest does the US have in Syria anyways?
Aside from the fact that they are fighting for freedom and democracy just the same way that we did in 1776, our interest is this;
Currently Hezbollah, Assad, al-Qaeda, and al-Nustra combined have more strength than the FSA. They don't have more fighters, just better weapons and positioning. So if we don't help the FSA, then the Muslim Extremists will take control of the Syrian government. Not only would Syria become an enemy state, but hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees would also be trapped inside Turkey. And that's not good for Turkey either.
And also, Saudi Arabia told us to do this, and they are kinda the boss of us.
warmonger1981 wrote:Do we really think Russia will not get involved if the US imposes a no fly zone or invades?
Russia cannot oppose Saudi Arabia, no country in the world can oppose Saudi Arabia. Even the US had to ask their permission to invade Iraq. I mean this quite literally and I'm not exaggerating when I say that Saudi Arabia controls almost all of the planet's oil supply. They can freeze-out any country from the world's oil-markets. The Saudis are actually the one's who decide how much oil any OPEC member nation is allowed to sell every month, to who, and they control the price as well.
Furthermore, Russia doesn't even border Syria. All they can do is yell loudly about this. They will continue to sell small arms to Assad, but American and Saudi aid will render their tank and jet sales useless. The FSA will then outnumber Assad's security forces and Hezbollah by approximately 2 to 1 in a gun fight.
Also, like Libya the no fly zone probably won't happen until it's too late to make a big difference. Once those Saudi manpads get to the FSA, Assad's jets will be grounded anyway.
warmonger1981 wrote:What about Hezbollah supplying arms and troops?
There's only around 4,500 Hezbollah in the area (approximately) but the FSA has around 100,000 members. The difference is that Hezbollah is supplied and armed while the FSA ditched their weapons when they quite the Syrian army.
warmonger1981 wrote: My point is this is another stepping stone for corrupt US policies leading into a rabbit hole that has no clear end.
They said that about Libya.
Assad will be ousted no matter what. The question is do you want a democratic country that is pro-America or a Sharia-Law state to replace him?
warmonger1981 wrote:The weapons went from Libya to Syria for a reason unclear to the American public. The CIA was running arms for what? Profit, freedom or ???????
Freedom. If those weapons were Libya's weapons, then we weren't selling them.
The reason was to arm the FSA against Muslim extremists. So that the Muslim Extremists won't take control of the country like they did in Afghanistan.
