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The assumption here is that the rebels possession of chemical weapons are taken from Syria's reserves. Do we think Israel is less than capable of sending its vast cache of Chemical weapons to the Anti Syrian forces they support in Syria? Have we ruled out Turkey for supplying the chemical weaponry along with other weapons to the Syrian rebels? Why do we forget the Libyan rebel alliance with other rebels in Syria? In Libya, the army claimed Sarin & mustard gas were used on the Libyan people by NATO, their supported proxies and Libyan rebels. Israeli planes attacked the Libyan people too. Bani Walid especially, even post NATO has endured many nasty attacks from the Misurata brigade, NATO and other foreigners. Sirte was heavily attacked, destroyed and everywhere there was at least damaged. The homes not in rubble had mortar and bullet holes through the walls. The people suffered holocaust-type deaths -all from forces from outside of the place, especially the British, so I am told by their army. Why do we not assume that whilst NATO imposed a weapons embargo on Libya, it looked the other way as NATO countries like France supplied the rebels with weaponry. Whilst the Libyan coast was heavily blockaded by NATO forces, the rebels took possession of chemical weapons from the sea. Commit atrocities in Syria, send in CW but blame Assad?
bojack
The U.S. and the West should not supply arms to the Syrian rebels. All recent reports that I've read have stated that the The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and the Salafist oriented groups are now in the vanguard and may at this point represent the majority of the rebel fighters.
There is a reason why the many Syrian minorities have not joined the revolution (Kurds, Druze, Christians, Turkamen, Circassians, etc.). They know what awaits them if the Islamist Sunni forces win the day. They gaze south to Egypt and see the Christian Copts being murdered as their churches and businesses burn by Salafist forces as the MB led government doesn't lift a finger to help them. Mubarak, dictator that he was, did protect them.
They look to Iraq and see the Salafists butchering the Shiites. In Turkey they see the Islamist Sunni givernment's unrelenting oppression of the Kurds (a full eighteen percent of Turkey's population).
Assad is a ruthless dictator, but like Mubarak, always protected Syria's ethnic/religious minorities.
The Arab Spring has been an unmitigated disaster in Egypt and Libya (no longer a real nation state, but rather a series of statelets ruled by warlords and religious extremists (remember the Benghazi massacre).
As difficult as it is to say, the new rulers of Syria are likely to be even worse than the Assad regime.
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