More freaking Evidence with links to multiple sources.
US Backing for ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels: Long Reported, Continually Forgotten
http://fair.org/blog/2015/02/22/us-...n-rebels-long-reported-continually-forgotten/
Here is part of the link
That the US is arming and training Syrian rebels has been
well-documented for
over two years, yet Western media have historically suffered from a strange collective amnesia when reporting this fact. As Ian Sinclair noted last September in the
Huffington Post (
9/23/14):
In mid-2012, the most influential newspaper in the world
reported the US was helping to arm the rebels–a fact confirmed by
subsequent stories in the
New York Times itself, as well as
numerous reports in other mainstream news outlets around the world.
Contrast this publicly available, easily accessed information with these summaries from the mainstream media of the ongoing US role in Syria…:
•
New York Times (
5/4/13): “President [Obama] seems to be moving closer to providing lethal assistance to the Syrian rebels,
even though he rejected such a policy just months ago.”
•
Guardian (
5/8/13): “
The US, which has outlawed al-Nusra as a terrorist group,
has hesitated to arm the FSA [Free Syrian Army].”…
•
New York Times (
9/9/14):
“Mr Obama has resisted military engagement in Syria for more than three years, out of fear early on that arming the rebels who oppose Mr. Assad would fail to alter the balance in the civil war.”
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BBC Today Programme (9/11/14), presenter Mishal Husein to US ambassador: “
If you [the US] had helped the moderate Syrian opposition, the Free Syrian Army, three years ago, even two years ago, we might well not be in the position that we are now.
President Obama’s reluctance to intervene and to take action on Syria has contributed to what we are seeing now.”
Have you had enough of evidence or do you need more?
