Of course, “human rights” and the “rule of law” have never been concerns
before, even as the United States has funded, armed, trained, and
directed jihadists on the ground from the very beginning of the Syrian
crisis. Neither
has there been any concern over the
presence of “moderate” rebels that have
never actually existed in Syria. After all, it should be remembered that the United States own
Defense Intelligence Agency was recently forced
to release and declassify documents which admitted that not only did
the US know that the “rebellion” was made up of al-Qaeda and Nusra
forces but that these organizations and similar groups were attempting
to create a “Salafist principality” in the east of Syria and West of
Iraq. The DIA docs also show that the US was supporting all of these
efforts. In reality, of course, the US was directing these efforts.
Make no mistake, the United States is not funding “moderate vetted
rebels” to fight ISIS or al-Qaeda. The US is funding jihadist terrorists
and mercenaries to work alongside ISIS and al-Qaeda (if they are not
members of these organizations already) to overthrow the secular
government of Bashar al-Assad. Virtually every person of a moderate
persuasion in Syria has long come over to the side of the Syrian
government. Indeed, there was never such a thing as a moderate rebel in
Syria to begin with and the reality on the ground has not changed since.
Thus, revelations that the United States is funding a mercenary army to overthrow Assad is nothing new.
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