Do We Continue to Arm the Enemies of Israel and the U.S. in Syria?

Do We Continue to Arm the Enemies of Israel and the U.S. in Syria?: In September, the Obama Administration and many Republicans were pushing for the U.S. to intervene in Syria. I said no.

We did not have an articulable national security interest in that country, and it was also unclear if we had any discernible allies in that nation’s civil war.

Five months prior, my colleagues in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted overwhelmingly to arm the Syrian rebels who were opposing Bashar al-Assad. I warned that the weapons we gave extremists could be used against Christians in the region. I warned that weapons we gave to extremists in Syria could one day potentially be used against our ally Israel.

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