{"id":3726,"date":"2013-05-17T09:07:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T07:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:07:36","slug":"support-the-syrian-rebels-how-stupid-can-the-west-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2013\/05\/support-the-syrian-rebels-how-stupid-can-the-west-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Support the Syrian Rebels?: How stupid can the West be?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0Video shows Islamist rebels executing 11 Syrian soldiers<\/a>: \u00c2\u00a0Yet for some unfathomable reason the Administration is talking about providing support to the rebel groups in Syria. \u00c2\u00a0The video is below (Warning, it is graphic).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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After watching just contemplate that these are the folks some in the West want us to help. \u00c2\u00a0How they differ from the regime thugs I have no idea.<\/p>\n

Compare\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0picture\u00c2\u00a0in the linked article with the video. \u00c2\u00a0Notice there is no mention of the cries of Allahu Akbar<\/em> in the article although they do mention in passing that the group is Islamist. \u00c2\u00a0Now also remember the constant refrain about Islam being a Religion of Peace<\/strong><\/em>, which\u00c2\u00a0Muslim’s\u00c2\u00a0give the lie to almost every day by their barbarities and savageries.<\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0Video shows Islamist rebels executing 11 Syrian soldiers: \u00c2\u00a0Yet for some unfathomable reason the Administration is talking about providing support to the rebel groups in Syria. \u00c2\u00a0The video is below (Warning, it is graphic). After watching just contemplate that these… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,341,482,60,81,631],"tags":[1025,219,1027,398,295,150,97,83,520,263,582,472,756,206],"class_list":["post-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigns-operations","category-general-history","category-geopolitics-statecraft","category-contemporary-wars","category-political-history","category-war-theory","tag-21st-century","tag-america","tag-american-history","tag-arab-spring","tag-civil-war","tag-contemporary-war","tag-counterinsurgency","tag-geopolitics","tag-geostrategy","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-military-affairs","tag-realpolitik","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21181,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions\/21181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}