The latest news from the Middle East is that the Moslem Brotherhood which rules Egypt has announced that it is heeding the call from Sunni clerics to join a jihad against the Assad forces and their Shiite allies in Syria. While the Egyptian government has said that it will not send forces to Syria (at least for now), it also said that it would not stop Egyptians Sunnis from traveling to Syria to do "relief" work. This means that the Sunni Moslems who control Egypt are joining their co-religionists in Syria to fight against the Shiite forces of Iran, Hezbollah and Assad. Syria is now a full fledged religious war which each side considers a jihad.
Isn't it amazing that for two years as civil strife continued in Syria, president Obama studiously avoided getting involved. Now that the Sunni-Shia jihad is out in the open, Obama is diving into the mess by arming the Sunni side.
I have to wonder what genius decided that it made no sense to get involved when there were democratic forces fighting Assad, but that involvement was imperative once the Sunni terror groups took over the rebels.
Obama needs to look out for the long term interests of the United States. It is too bad that he doesn't seem to care about those interests.
Isn't it amazing that for two years as civil strife continued in Syria, president Obama studiously avoided getting involved. Now that the Sunni-Shia jihad is out in the open, Obama is diving into the mess by arming the Sunni side.
I have to wonder what genius decided that it made no sense to get involved when there were democratic forces fighting Assad, but that involvement was imperative once the Sunni terror groups took over the rebels.
Obama needs to look out for the long term interests of the United States. It is too bad that he doesn't seem to care about those interests.
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