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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo if we help the "good" rebels against the "bad" rebels...
and both of them against Assad...
Then surely the bad rebels will just put down their black flags for a few months and fight alongside the good rebels.
Then when they've ousted Assad, they'll simply hoist their black pirates' flag again and go back to being the bad guys.
What's to stop them from doing that?
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So if we help the "good" rebels against the "bad" rebels... (Original Post)
CJCRANE
Sep 2014
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CentralMass
(15,265 posts)1. You would almost guess that the goal is to weaponize the entire region.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)3. Perhaps the endgame is...
to send all the armed Tea Partiers over there to fight a humongous war.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)2. "Good rebels and "bad rebels"?
Famous last words, those.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)4. or, if/when Assad is ousted, who would expect ISIS to just say "let the good rebels have it" ?