Obama Deciding To Arm Syria?

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The Obama administration is moving towards intervention in Syria’s unfolding, murderous civil war.  Today’s political support and humanitarian assistance for what it calls “the opposition” seems likely to turn shortly into an even more direct role. After all, Governor Mitt Romney recently challenged Team Obama to arm that opposition. As Andrew McCarthy points out at National Review Online, however, while the heinous Assad regime is killing civilians, so are those seeking its overthrow.  The latter include al Qaeda and possibly the Muslim Brotherhood. Some say we have a “responsibility to protect” victims of such violence.  Our government’s first responsibility though is to protect our people.  That duty would be violated if we again help replace one set of brutal oppressors with even more lethal, shariah-adherent ones – who will, in due course, threaten us.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.