Arming rebels

[Goodburbon]

thought I just read that we have only provided humanitarian and non-military aid so far.. we are only starting to think about sending military supplies with the recent allegation of chemical weapons having been used. Most arms are coming in via Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Who arms SA and Qatar?

[def90]

Who arms SA and Qatar?

Well, seeing that all the rifles coming from Qatar are FALs I doubt it's us. There are local govs that have a large stake in the Mid East to keep things status quo and have cash to burn.

[Great-Kazoo]

Well, seeing that all the rifles coming from Qatar are FALs I doubt it's us. There are local govs that have a large stake in the Mid East to keep things status quo and have cash to burn.

UMMMMMM we are the "local" .gov who has a stake in the ME. Where you been the last few decades? You don't arm the .govs opposition with US mfg weapons, you give them AK,s FN's anything but 5.56 chambered weapons.
Once they become openly armed with US weaponry we're in deeper than we should have been.
This admin. has done nothing but support the muslim brotherhood across the ME starting openly in Egypt. Look what we got out of that.
Hell we are now dealing with "Low rent Jihadist" who clearly have NO Connections to anyone or any .org other than themselves.

[sabot_round]

UMMMMMM we are the "local" .gov who has a stake in the ME. Where you been the last few decades? You don't arm the .govs opposition with US mfg weapons, you give them AK,s FN's anything but 5.56 chambered weapons.
Once they become openly armed with US weaponry we're in deeper than we should have been.
This admin. has done nothing but support the muslim brotherhood across the ME starting openly in Egypt. Look what we got out of that.
Hell we are now dealing with "Low rent Jihadist" who clearly have NO Connections to anyone or any .org other than themselves.

ding, ding, ding, ding!!! We have a winner!!