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Boreal

(725 posts) Thu Sep 18, 2014, 01:13 AM Sep 2014

The House voted to arm the Syrian "rebels"

AKA, "The Free Syrian Army" (FSA), who are terrorists, not "moderates". Heard it on CNN earlier. Just so everyone is clear on who they are and how they're connected to the other terrorist groups (there are a bunch of them - al Qaeda, al Nusra, ISIL/ISIS, etc)...

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