{"id":37729,"date":"2013-09-26T09:32:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T13:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37729"},"modified":"2013-09-26T09:34:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T13:34:24","slug":"syrian-rebels-embrace-islamist-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37729","title":{"rendered":"Syrian rebels embrace Islamist Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/sep\/25\/alliance-of-rebel-groups-calls-for-an-islamist-syr\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that a bloc of Syrian rebel groups took to the airways and embraced the idea of an Islamic government to replace the largely secular government of Bashar al-Assad that they are fighting;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFrom an international perspective, the argument that we want to fund a moderate opposition has just been blown full of holes,\u201d said Valerie Szybala, a Syria analyst at the Institute for the Study of War<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The new rebel bloc includes some powerful factions of the Free Syrian Army, which is likely to undermine the case to arm and fund the moderate opposition. Obama administration officials said this month that U.S. arms had begun flowing to the Free Syrian Army.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration was caught off guard by the announcement, and a U.S. official told The Associated Press that it is too early to determine what the impact will be. Another U.S. official said the U.S. and its allies are increasingly concerned about infighting between the Free Syrian Army and al Qaeda militants in northern and eastern Syria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, this isn&#8217;t my shocked face. But, let&#8217;s still arm them and then make airstrikes on the Assad regime&#8217;s forces to weaken them. We farted around just long enough to give the Islamists a foot hold. The fact that the Obama Administration was caught flat-footed on this announcement should give everyone pause. I don&#8217;t think that there&#8217;s a member of this forum who didn&#8217;t see this coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that a bloc of Syrian rebel groups took to the airways and &hellip; <a title=\"Syrian rebels embrace Islamist Syria\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37729\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Syrian rebels embrace Islamist Syria<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}