Rome- The Obama administration said Thursday that it will provide the Syrian opposition with an additional $60 million in assistance and — in a significant policy shift — will for the first time provide nonlethal aid like food and medical supplies to rebels battling to oust President Bashar Assad.
“We need to stand on the side of those who want to see a free Syria,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said. “The stakes are really high and we can’t risk letting this country in the heart of the Mideast being destroyed by vicious autocrats.”
Kerry announced the new support and the decision to back the rebel fighters on the sidelines of an international conference on Syria in Rome, where European and Arab nations also signaled their intention to provide fresh assistance to the opposition.
“No nation, no people should live in fear of their so-called leaders,” Kerry said.
Mouaz al-Khatib, leader of the Syrian opposition coalition, called on Assad to “for once in your life behave as a human being.”
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THIS IS OUTRIGHT TREASON, AIDING THE ENEMY, THIS IS THE SAME GROUP THAT DESTROYED THE TWIN TOWERS 9/11/2001
But…but…I thought we were 16 trillion dollars in debt! How can we be giving money
to anybody?!
Aren’t we releasing criminal IAs into the populace, giving them a “budget pardon” because we don’t have sufficient funds to house and guard them with the Sequester? And aren’t we planning to ship millions of dollars worth of our best fighter planes and tanks to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?
Best check those “food and medical supply shipments.” There’s probably a cache of RPGs, mortars, automatic weapons and ammunition hidden amidst them. Isn’t that what Obama did in Libya? Some of those arms were subsequently used to kill 4 Americans including two former Navy Seals and the American Ambassador in Benghazi Libya just like the firearms that were walked across our southern border into the hands of drug cartel gangs that were used to kill untold Mexican citizens and two American border patrol agents in what is referred to as Operation Fast and Furious.
Well, as according to the President, our country is going to totally collapse and then turns around and gives $60 million dollars. Does that make sense.