Rebel fighters carry their weapons as they take positions in the town of Kafr Nabudah, in Hama province, Syria, on which forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad are carrying out offensives to take control of the town, October 11, 2015. Reuters/Ammar Abdullah
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Nathaniel Barr, Daily Beast: The CIA’s Syria Program and the Perils of Proxies
After fighting al Qaeda and its affiliates for a decade and a half, the CIA is now helping them gain ground in Syria.
Almost every aspect of the Obama administration’s policy toward Syria has been scrutinized, lambasted or praised in recent months, but one of the most significant facets, the CIA’s covert aid program to Syrian rebels, has largely slipped below the radar.
It is time that we start paying attention, since this initiative is benefiting the very jihadist groups the U.S. has been fighting for the past 15 years.
America’s abrupt about-face is a mistake, but even those who would defend this new course as the least bad option should favor a more robust public debate.
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WNU Editor: This policy should be debated .... but Congress, the White House, the media, the pundit class .... no okne wants to touch it.