What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Alternate Title "Are We Effing Stupid"?

From the Drudgereport Headlines:

Let me get this right. The rebels pledge loyalty to al-Qaeda and we are going to give them
weapons?

Syrian rebels pledge loyalty to al-Qaeda

 BEIRUT — A Syrian rebel group's pledge of allegiance to al-Qaeda's replacement for Osama bin Laden suggests that the terrorist group's influence is not waning and that it may take a greater role in the Western-backed fight to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad

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and now we have this:

 

U.S.: Syria used chemical weapons, crossing "red line"

 
The Obama administration has concluded that Syrian President Bashar Assad's government used chemical weapons against the rebels seeking to overthrow him and, in a major policy shift, President Obama has decided to supply military support to the rebels, the White House announced Thursday.

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