Weekly Standard pushes Obama to aid Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda militarily in Syria

The ever-clueless Republican establishment organ the Weekly Standard didn't mention the Muslim Brotherhood or al-Qaeda, of course. Gary Schmitt and Thomas Donnelly give the impression that the anti-Assad forces in Syria are Western-style pluralist democrats, as they were advertised as being in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. Yet even though the rebels are clearly established as pro-Sharia Islamic supremacists in all three of those countries, the Weekly Standard hasn't learned a thing. In fact, the Weekly Standard hasn't learned a thing even from the spectacular failures of the Wilsonian democracy projects in Iraq and Afghanistan, and still clamors for more Wilsonian adventures, heedless of how they actually aid the establishment of Sharia states that will be inveterate, immovable enemies of the United States and of freedom.

"Syria and Obama's Strategic Box," by Gary Schmitt and Thomas Donnelly for the Weekly Standard, July 27 (thanks to Maxwell):

Why hasn’t President Obama intervened militarily in Syria? After all, this is a president who issued a directive last year stating that a “core” national security interest of the United States would be to prevent mass atrocities of precisely the kind Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is now unleashing on his own people. And this is a president who, to his credit, helped remove Muammar Qaddafi from power. Certainly, overthrowing Assad, cutting Syria’s ties to Iran, and putting an end to its destructive role in Lebanon is far more important to American security interests than the campaign to end Qaddafi’s rule in Libya ever was....

These recent news stories out of Syria have absolutely nothing to do with Obama's failure (so far) to intervene militarily in that country, but they abundantly establish why he shouldn't:

"As soon as Assad has fallen, these fighters want to introduce Islamic law, Sharia, in Syria"

Syria: Christians flee from jihadist rebels

Syria: "Brigade of Islam" claims responsibility for murder of defense minister and president's brother-in-law

Syrian Muslim Brotherhood: 30 years after failed uprising, victory could be ours

Syrian rebels chanting "Allahu akbar" set fire to hundreds of bottles of alcohol

Bravo, Obama: U.S.-backed rebels committing genocide of Christians in Syria

Syria: At least 9,000 Christians flee their homes after persecution from Islamic supremacist rebels

Syria: Houla massacre blamed on Assad regime actually work of jihadi rebels

Announcement from minarets in Syrian city: "Christians must leave Qusayr within six days"

Syrian opposition leader: Israel "main enemy of the Syrian revolution"

UN says al Qaeda behind Syria jihad-martyrdom bombs

Syria protesters: "Allah's victory is near" "Armies of Islam, set us free"

Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch: "Foreign elements have entered the country and have even started beating the Christians"

Syria: Jihadists expel all families from Christian village

Christians afraid of Islamic rule in Syria

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vladtepes2 | August 1, 2012 6:00 AM | Reply

Oh this should be interesting, as soon as Obama supports the Syrian rebels, Israel might have to blow them up, if they try to get their hands on chemical weapons. American policy - an unguided missle.
Obama is beginning to remind me of Captain Eric Finlander in "The Bedford Incident".

joeblough | August 1, 2012 8:22 AM | Reply

"... putting an end to its destructive role in Lebanon ..."

And how is this is going to happen?

I had no idea that the people over at the Weekly Standard were actually retarded.

R X | August 1, 2012 8:45 AM | Reply

The Byzantine Melkite Patriarch's stance is considerably more developed and interesting. Among the points the patriarch made in his July vademecum on the subject of the Syrian conflict were the following:

"Nevertheless, there is no Muslim-Christian conflict. Christians are not targeted as such, but can be reckoned among the victims of chaos and lack of security."

"As Christians we address our big appeal to the Arab world to call it to unity: the division of the Arab world has always been the major target at home and abroad. This division is the reason for the dangers that are lying in wait for the region and is the cause of the absence of a just and comprehensive solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is the basis and primordial cause of the majority of misfortunes, crises and wars in the Arab world. This conflict, according to the testimony of His Holiness the Pope, of many churchmen, Apostolic Nuncios, and even of Jewish Israeli politicians, is the primordial cause of the Christian exodus."

"Peace lies in the unity of the Arab world and the safety of Christians can only be assured by the unity of the Arab world, from which flow the circumstances favourable to living together and Muslim-Christian and inter-Muslim dialogue. The greatest danger in this field affects Islam itself when it is divided along the fracture lines of the Arab world, evidence for that being the Sunni-Shi’ite conflict. This phenomenon is more dangerous than the danger that Christians or other denominations are incurring in Syria and the region."

"Europeans, take an interest in the unity of the Arab world, if you want to help Christians. Europeans, solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, if you want to help Christians. Europeans, work for peace in the Middle East, if you want to help Christians. Our common destiny for us all, Arab Christians and Muslims…is the same. Don’t cut us off from our Arab community environment, nor from our Muslim community environment."

Arius replied to comment from R X | August 1, 2012 11:00 AM | Reply

Most of the Christian leaders in Muslim dominated countries have internalized dhimmitude from centuries of persecution and oppression. Christians off the record speak very differently.

Kepha | August 1, 2012 12:58 PM | Reply

My respect for the _Weekly Standard_ has just fallen through the basement floor. Granted, the Assad regime is a reprehensible one, but is it really worse than the current alternative? The USA doesn't have a dog in the Syrian fight, so we should stay out.

dumbledoresarmy | August 1, 2012 9:45 PM | Reply

RX/ fairuzfan, above, wants people to forget that a/ the Ummah was ripping itself apart with wars and intrigues for 1300 years before ever the tiny Jewish state of Israel was resurrected and b/ that all non-Arab Muslims are looked down on and treated badly by the Arab Muslims (vide Darfur, the most egregious recent example) and c/ that Muslims, during that same period, consistently and continuously treated Christian dhimmis like sh*t, just as they *also* treated Jewish dhimmis like sh*t, and Zoroastrian dhimmis, and Hindu dhimmis in India.

Blaming the wars of the 'Arab' Muslim world, and the sufferings of the dhimmi Christians, upon Israel, is monstrous, stupid, and false as hell.

Enragedsince1999 | August 3, 2012 10:13 PM | Reply

Dastardly neocon rag weekly standard.
The Zionists are pride of the Jewish race.
And the neoliberals and neocons are disgrace to the Jewish race.
Glory to Zionism!
Down with the nn's!

Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.

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