Cole: Mitt can’t decide whether he is afraid of Muslims or wants to give them sophisticated weapons.

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Top Ten Reasons Romney Shouldn’t Arm Syrian Rebels

GOP presidential hopeful Willard “Mitt” Romney has called on President Barack Obama to arm the Syrian opposition, accusing the president of lacking leadership for declining to do so.

Romney can’t decide whether he is afraid of Muslims or wants to give them sophisticated weapons. He once explained that he did not want to focus on killing Bin Laden because he was just one leader, and the problem was ‘Sunni and Shia’ and ‘the Muslim Brotherhood and … Hizbullah… etc.’ In other words, Romney looks at a fifth of humankind and jumps out of his skin in fright that there might be Muslims out there.

1. Once a country is flooded with weapons, they don’t stay in that country. They get resold and spread around the region. ...

2. The Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaeda affiliate, is among those fighting the Syrian regime. So far it is a bit player in that country, but it certainly would be among the groups receiving American weapons from Romney.

(lots more at the link)

http://www.juancole.com/2012/06/top-ten-reasons-romney-shouldnt-arm-syrian-rebels.html

Mitt is confusing himself by vacillating between playing the "fear of Muslims" card and the "a bold president would arm the Muslims" card. I know he wants to sound like the macho, reckless military leader (as he sees the most recent republican president), but this duplicity is a bit much.