No, it's you who didn't understand me. I am perfectly well aware of press reports of what the CIA is doing and not doing. The point is to engage Congress to explicitly prohibit Western transfer of anti-aircraft weapons to the Syrian rebels as part of the long campaign to shut down the fantasy of a military solution and force real diplomacy to end the war.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/16/13 11:58 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > > That's exactly right. It's like beating down an open door. That's why > > it's likely to work. > > You didn't seem to understand me. I was trying to say that the Obama > administration is dead set against sending anti-aircraft weapons to the > rebels, either jihadist or moderate as the WSJ article I cited bears > out. CIA agents have blocked the shipment of MANPAD's from Libya and > therefore there is little chance that Obama would send them now. > > Do you have Nexis? A search on "Obama" and "anti-aircraft" returned 597 > articles. The latest one by Kim Sengupta is fairly typical: > > "Reports that the CIA is supplying small arms to those fighting > President Bashar al-Assad's troops, months after the US signalled its > intention to do so, has not led to an outbreak of euphoria among the > rebels. They are only too aware that the weapons that may actually be > game-changers - anti-aircraft missiles - would not be forthcoming from > the West." > > The February 9, 2013 Washington Post reported: In the case of the > mobilesurface-to-air missiles, called MANPADS, one official said, "We > wouldn't even consider it, because God forbid they would be used against > an Israeli aircraft." > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected]
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