Quote Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing View Post
In five or ten or twenty years arming them will come back to bite us in the arse and when it does all the clowns like McCain who are advocating arming them will say that nobody could have predicted that arming and training large numbers of jihadi nutcases in the 2010s would cause us problems down the road.

Hey, it worked so well in Afghanistan in the eighties. What could go wrong?
I generally agree with this but then hezbollah got involved and it takes all of my will to not fully endorse throwing our weight behind the rebels.