HAS AMERICA PARTNERED WITH AL QAEDA IN SYRIA?

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Human Events:

It is a twist of fate, or perhaps by design, that President Barack Obama’s Syria policy puts America in league with al Qaeda and other hardline Islamists helping to oust another dictator. We may come to regret our Syrian policy.

Our policies that help Islamists are becoming a dangerous pattern for American Mideast interests. Remember, President Obama called for the ouster of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and now that country has an anti-American Muslim Brotherhood-run government. Obama joined NATO’s efforts to oust Libya’s dictator and as a result we got the Benghazi consulate attack tragedy and another Arab country brimming with Islamic extremists and criminal militias.

The same is happening with Syria. During the presidential debate Obama said Syrian President Bashir al-Assad “has to go” and “we are going to do everything we can to make sure that we are helping the opposition.” But that commitment means something very different today than it meant last year when the Syrian opposition wasn’t so radicalized.

Over the past year Islamic extremists have nudged their way into the Syrian opposition, which means once the dictator is gone, Islamists will play a significant role in yet another Mideast country. The consequences are serious: another anti-American country in the region that will likely embrace Sharia (Islamic) law and host more terrorism.