re: #1 Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You

re: #2 Obdicut

re: #4 ckkatz

I do see pro interventionists trying to minimize the link the USA has with Saudi Arabian intelligence that goes back to Cold War Afgan days.

The USA has plausible deniability when it comes to the Free Syrian army, helping them with ‘non lethal aid’ and contracts the dirty work through Saudi Arabia.

And regarding the comment from ckkatz minimizing the number of Brit jihadis in the Free Syrian Army, it is clear except to the most partisan of supporters of this foreign policy disaster that the FSA is a fig leaf for a jihadi Sunni rebellion:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/287315_Islamic_Jihadists_Are_Now_The_

Islamic Jihadists Are Now The Most Organized Force Of The Syrian Opposition

Michael Kelley | Oct. 11, 2012, 3:34 PM

Powerful Syrian Islamist brigades, frustrated by the increasingly fractured Free Syrian Army (FSA), are joining forces in an attempt to topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reports.

A citizen Deir Ezzor, a city in eastern Syria, told The Guardian that Islamist organizations “are the real fighters on the ground” while the FSA there “are only issuing statements” and “stockpiling weapons in the countryside for reasons we don’t understand.”

The man added that there is little coordination among FSA groups because there is “big conflict between the defected officers about who should be the commanders.” Consequently, people are now “more supportive of the jihadi organizations than the FSA.”

The jihadists brigades have decided to come together to form the “Front to Liberate Syria” and one jihadist leader told Reuters they have “more than 40,000 fighters now and the numbers are growing.”