Cole: Mitt can’t decide whether he is afraid of Muslims or wants to give them sophisticated weapons.
Top Ten Reasons Romney Shouldnt Arm Syrian Rebels
GOP presidential hopeful Willard Mitt Romney
has called on President Barack Obama to arm the Syrian opposition, accusing the president of lacking leadership for declining to do so.
Romney cant decide whether he is afraid of Muslims or wants to give them sophisticated weapons. He once explained that he did not want to focus on killing Bin Laden because he was just one leader, and the problem was Sunni and Shia and the Muslim Brotherhood and
Hizbullah
etc. In other words,
Romney looks at a fifth of humankind and jumps out of his skin in fright that there might be Muslims out there.
1. Once a country is flooded with weapons, they dont stay in that country. They get resold and spread around the region. ...
2. The Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaeda affiliate, is among those fighting the Syrian regime. So far it is a bit player in that country, but it certainly would be among the groups receiving American weapons from Romney.
(lots more at the link)
http://www.juancole.com/2012/06/top-ten-reasons-romney-shouldnt-arm-syrian-rebels.html
Mitt is confusing himself by vacillating between playing the "fear of Muslims" card and the "a bold president would arm the Muslims" card. I know he wants to sound like the macho, reckless military leader (as he sees the most recent republican president), but this duplicity is a bit much.