Why support Syrian rebels?
Why support Syrian rebels?
In a number of Muslim countries in North Africa and the Mideast, American military support of insurgents looking to topple repressive totalitarian regimes has resulted in militant Islamists gaining the upper hand, with little chance of a modern representative democracy along Western lines emerging.
Why do we imagine that arming the Syrian rebels, some of whom are clearly allied with al-Qaida, would turn out any differently?
Mary F. Warren
Wheaton