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Obama is crazy for wanting to arm and train 'moderate' Syrian rebels thinking they can fight both Isis and Assad. At the start of the uprising there may have been moderate groups establishing a decent foothold but now they're barely on the map, they were swallowed up by the Islamist groups long ago. Those that remain don't have the means to effect anything really and arming them just runs the risk of those arms falling into the hands of Isis. Training them in Saudi Arabia is dangerous as well considering that the Saudi state is founded on beliefs a lot closer to Isis than those of the US. There was some truth in the letter that the Syrian government sent to the US earlier this week:

Syria, of course, insists no “moderate” opposition now exists in the country, a statement which carries the mark of truth, and that all opponents of Mr Assad’s rule were from the start Wahhabi-inspired Sunni jihadists – which was not in fact the case. Mr Laham’s letter accuses Saudi Arabia, which funds Mr Assad’s enemies, of sponsoring schools which are “teaching the ideology of hate, ‘takfiri’ [a Muslim accusing a fellow Muslim of apostasy] and jihad as holy duty”.

Re-emphasising its own loathing of the Saudi regime, the Syrian letter says all “terrorists” are the product of “this Salafi, Wahhabi, jihadi ideology – from 9/11, to [the] Boston bombing, to the beheading of the two American journalists – beheading, which is a governmental legal practice in Saudi Arabia”. Mr Obama should not form any coalition outside UN Resolution 2170, “especially with states that have a conflict of interest due to their practised ideology.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...b-9737292.html