US: Who Shall We Buy in Syria?

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How is it possible that with the United States having so many think tanks dedicated to the study of the Middle East, the White House still makes mistakes in that region?

US: Who Shall We Buy in Syria?
Juventud Rebelde, Cuba
By Jorge L. Rodriguez Gonzalez
Translated By Mayra Reiter
13 December 2013
Edited by Jane Lee

Once again things backfired. Many analysts issued warnings, but sometimes I ask myself how it is possible that with the United States having so many think tanks dedicated to the study of the Middle East, the White House still makes mistakes in that region. It was to be expected that terrorist groups, after receiving financing from Washington and Arab countries in the Persian Gulf to overthrow the Syrian government by force, would be out of control and ignoring their sponsors.

Therefore, Washington and London decided to suspend their aid to the Free Syrian Army (FSA), but only in the country in conflict’s north after a radical group, the Islamic Front, attacked FSA arsenals on the border with Turkey and seized anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons.

The attitude of the foreign powers, fundamentally the U.S., is due to the fear that the war material may fall into the hands of jihadi groups, something they say they have tried to avoid since the start of the conflict, identifying moderate elements to whom they could offer their assistance.

Everybody knew that those groups were there, that they arrived from Iraq, Libya, Turkey, the Persian Gulf and other parts of the world, Western countries included, but they did not care because they served their interests and their goal of regime change.