Source: Cryptogon
In the piece below, we read that this, “Stops short of providing any direct military assistance to the armed opposition.”
If you want to read detailed, voluminous accounts of how the U.S.
covertly and illegally provides weapons to any state or group it
pleases, see, Spider’s Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq by Alan Friedman and, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed.
In other words, planeloads of weapons are going to be given to Al Qaeda (See: Syria: Clinton Admits U.S. On Same Side As Al Qaeda).
Via: Foreign Policy:
The Obama administration is moving to provide direct assistance
to the internal opposition in Syria for the first time, marking a shift
in U.S. policy toward a more aggressive plan to help oust President
Bashar al-Assad.
Last week, a group of senior Obama administration officials met to
finalize a package of options for aiding both the internal and external
Syrian opposition, to include providing direct humanitarian and
communications assistance to the Syrian opposition, two administration
officials confirmed to The Cable. This meeting of what’s known as the
Deputies Committee of the National Security Council set forth a new and
assertive strategy for expanding U.S. engagement with Syrian activists
and providing them with the means to organize themselves, but stops
short of providing any direct military assistance to the armed
opposition.
For now, riskier options, such as creating a no-fly zone in Syria, using U.S. military force there, or engaging directly with the Free Syrian Army, are all still off the table. But the administration has decided not to oppose, either in public or in private, the arming of the rebels by other countries, the officials said.
For now, riskier options, such as creating a no-fly zone in Syria, using U.S. military force there, or engaging directly with the Free Syrian Army, are all still off the table. But the administration has decided not to oppose, either in public or in private, the arming of the rebels by other countries, the officials said.
“These moves are going to invest the U.S. in a much deeper
sense with the opposition,” one administration official said. “U.S.
policy is now aligned with enabling the opposition to overthrow the
Assad regime. This codifies a significant change in our Syria policy.”
