{"id":37550,"date":"2013-09-12T08:02:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T12:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37550"},"modified":"2013-09-12T08:02:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T12:02:50","slug":"us-begins-delivering-aid-to-syrian-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37550","title":{"rendered":"US begins delivering aid to Syrian rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> reports that military aid has begun arriving in Syria for the rebels there from the US, you know, because we have money to throw away to help arm the people we’re probably going to end up fighting in another couple of years.<\/p>\n

The arms shipments, which are limited to light weapons and other munitions that can be tracked, began arriving in Syria at a moment of heightened tensions over threats by President Obama to order missile strikes to punish the regime of Bashar al-Assad for his alleged use of chemical weapons in a deadly attack near Damascus last month.<\/p>\n

The arms are being delivered as the United States is also shipping new types of nonlethal gear to rebels. That aid includes vehicles, sophisticated communications equipment and advanced combat medical kits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Light weapons and ammunition “that can be tracked”. Yeah, because this administration has such a good record of tracking weapons. Their plan to recover illegal arms transfers at crime scenes in Mexico has worked flawlessly. So, are they going to set up an arms room scenario wherein the rebels present a card along with an ID that proves they’re not jihadists and turn their weapon back in every night after they clean it? I’m just wondering because the article makes the process sound very reassuring, but, ya know, sometimes Joe Snuffy loses his weapon under these tightly controlled conditions, so I don’t know how the Washington Post can tell us that this system can be tracked, short of putting GPS chips in every weapon, and even then they’ll lose actual control of the weapon even though they might know where it is.<\/p>\n

I just hope they all kill each other as quickly as possible so we can move on to another crisis because I’m growing weary of this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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