Remember when Obama wanted to send troops to help these folks?
Islamist Wave Is Driving Out Syria’s Revolutionaries
A different kind of revolutionary fighter flooded parts of the north where Assad’s forces were already defeated. They have set up random checkpoints and demanded strict adherence to Islamic religious law, targeting not just Westerners, but Syrians, too.
Many of them are Islamic extremists linked to al-Qaeda — people al-Abdo doesn’t recognize from other regions, even other countries. They have threatened journalists and challenged the loose band of more secular fighters known as the Free Syrian Army. Abductions of Syrian activists, once rare, happen at a rate of two or three a day.
For al-Abdo, daily life started to feel impossible. He said he could barely sleep and when he ventured out, it was never far. And so, unhappily, reluctantly, al-Abdo left Idlib a few weeks ago, retreating to the safety of southern Turkey. “By the time I left, I wasn’t moving more than 200 meters from my house,” he said.
The left seems to be just noticing their arrival.
And some folks still think making Israel negotiate away the Golan Heights is a good idea.
Updated: The Obama administration does the wrong thing. Again.
U.S. may be open to Islamists joining Syrian rebel coalition
The Obama administration is willing to consider supporting an expanded Syrian rebel coalition that would include Islamist groups, provided the groups are not allied with al-Qaeda and agree to support upcoming peace talks in Geneva, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.
In addition, the official said, the Americans would like the Islamic Front groups to return U.S. vehicles, communications gear and other non-lethal equipment they seized last weekend from warehouses at the Syria-Turkey border.
How much would you like to put down that those vehicles had their keys in the ignition and the “rebels” were tipped off to that fact?
It seems as though the folks in the White House ask themselves “Is this a good idea?” and always come up with the wrong answer.