France wants to be able to arm Syrian rebels

[Xithras]

13. Hopefully they'll get slapped down.

The Syrian opposition is proving themselves to be a bunch of thugs, and even the UN reports are showing that Syrian civilians are flowing out of rebel held areas and into state held areas.

There's plenty of video evidence out there for anyone who wants to take the time and look for it. FSA soldiers beating a man for wearing yellow and looking "gay", FSA soldiers beating women for walking around uncovered, FSA soldiers hauling caches of alcohol into the street and destroying it for being un-Islamic, FSA soldiers beheading people, FSA soldiers bombing civilians. A significant part of the refugee problem is due to civilians FLEEING the parts of the country held by the FSA because they don't want to live under that kind of tyranny.

It's Afghanistan all over again, only the "mujiahadeen" is now the FSA. The smartest thing the west can do is to stay out of it.