Oh Yeah Let's Arm These "Moderate" Guys (John Kerry, McCain, Congress)

[LauraC]

The State Department-funded Syrian Emergency Task Force and Elizabeth O’Bagy backed an anti-Semitic, anti-Shiite imam for presidency of the Syrian rebels....while she still held a position at a connected Washington, DC think tank, O’Bagy strongly supported the anti-Semitic, anti-Shiite Sheikh Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib for a leadership position in an imaginary conquered Syria. Khatib’s website praises Saddam Hussein for “terrifying the Jews,” according to London-based journalist Mohanad Hage Ali writing in Foreign Policy in 2012. The imam-turned-politician “also published others’ anti-Semitic observations on his site,” Ali wrote. “In one article, written by Abdul Salam Basiouni, Jews are described as ‘gold worshippers.’ Finally, in an obituary of a Gaza sheikh copied from IslamSyria, Jews are dubbed ‘the enemies of God.’” Though he promised pluralism in Syria once he was elected, Khatib has also been quoted calling the Shiite minority liars and an Arabic slur. Despite these views, Secretary John Kerry, who met with Khatib in Rome in February, approved giving more than $60 million in aid to the Syrian rebels.

State-favored 'moderate' sheikh denounces Jews, Shiites | The Daily Caller

Are these the guys McCain was also touting?

The Daily Caller is the news organization that exposed O'Bagy for her dual role as a pundit urging war on the Assad in Syria and as a paid contractor for the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), a pro-rebel front group.

I have an idea on how to reduce the deficit. Put all of the Democrats and Republicans in Congress and the White House in a dunk tank and tell the American people for $5 you get to take 3 shots to dunk them. We'll even hire the unions to organize and bus people in from all over the country for the event. Maybe we'll do it during the next recess since they BS us when they come home, anyway.

[Goinback2011]

O supports radical Islamists and wants them to control countries in the middle east and beyond.

[remoddahouse]

Neither of those arguments really hold up. LauraC, you might want to dig into what the administration is doing there. It's the same as what a Republican administration would try to do. American interests aren't furthered with a victory by the regime or a victory by the rebels. What they're trying to do is keep things balanced and promote a stalemate.

In terms of the more childlike point made about POTUS trying to push Muslim fundamentalism, it's odd that with so many tools at his disposal, the only thing he's done so far is to ship some about to expire MRE's to the rebels. I'm pretty sure if POTUS wanted them to win, they'd have won already.

Both of you need to read more on the topic before making sweeping generalizations like this. Nothing that's being done by the D administration here would be any different if it were an R administration. Romney would be doing the same thing.