Syria Video Turns the Debate on U.S. Intervention by Lloyd Grove Sep 6, 2013 The Daily Beast.
The "rebels," or the "good guys," as our government likes to call them, have a tiresome habit of recording themselves doing bad things like beheadings and ripping the hearts out of their enemies for a quick bite. Now a video of one of their sordid escapades has surfaced, at the most inopportune time for the AUMF vote, graphically showing the rascally "rebels" slaughtering Syrian soldiers in a way that is beyond "morally obscene."
The raw video was so grisly, and so barbaric, that the New York Times staffers who watched and edited it for online publication were made “physically ill,” according to the newspaper’s spokeswoman, ‘These images ought to be a wakeup call for those who think Syria is headed for a better future under the rebels.’Hey, you guys who are upset with the majority of DailyKos for being against the AUMF, COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO! WAKE UP!!!!
“What’s amazing to me,” Bogert told The Daily Beast, “is that the authors of [various crimes against humanity] often photograph themselves in heroic poses at the scene. That was true in the 1999 massacres of Kosovo, the guards at Abu Ghraib, and now the rebels in Syria. It’s the same kind of macho and bravado that leads the perpetrators and killers to boast about their acts—and it’s our job to make sure those pictures come back to haunt them.”How could our government provide weapons and support to the
Syrian opposition—an inchoate agglomeration that apparently includes Islamic jihadists, al Qaeda members, and other avowed enemies of America—after 9/11? Crashing two planes into the World Trade Towers and killing 3000 people on our soil was not enough to never arm and train these terrorists again?
Ed Husain, senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations:
It does make a mockery of Secretary Kerry’s praise on Wednesday [before the House Foreign Affairs Committee] for the Syrian opposition.Yes, a mockery, but I can't laugh at this. What is wrong with our government and what can we do about it?
