{"id":26865,"date":"2016-04-13T14:24:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=26865"},"modified":"2016-04-13T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T22:24:07","slug":"ron-paul-on-plan-b-us-arms-syria-rebels-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/13\/ron-paul-on-plan-b-us-arms-syria-rebels-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul on Plan B \u2013 US Arms Syria Rebels&#8230; AGAIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (under pressure from &#8220;allies&#8221; Turkey and Saudi Arabia) has taken advantage of the ceasefire in Syria to ship massive amounts of weapons to the &#8220;moderates.&#8221; Even the mainstream media has reported that 50 percent of what is shipped to the &#8220;moderate&#8221; Free Syrian Army finds its way into the hands of al-Qaeda&#8217;s Nusra Front, a US-designated terrorist organization. Plus, State Department Spokesman Mark Toner has admitted that the &#8220;moderate&#8221; rebels are &#8220;co-mingled&#8221; with al-Qaeda in Syria. So this new US &#8220;Plan B&#8221; is for the CIA to arm those who are explicitly dedicated to attacking and overthrowing the Syrian government now that the Russians have succeeded in marginalizing ISIS. Is de-facto US\/al-Qaeda alliance in Syria morally justifiable?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rT2WeKaDNu4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (under pressure from &#8220;allies&#8221; Turkey and Saudi Arabia) has taken advantage of the ceasefire in Syria to ship massive amounts of weapons to the &#8220;moderates.&#8221; Even the mainstream media has reported that 50 percent of what is shipped to the &#8220;moderate&#8221; Free Syrian Army finds its way into the hands of al-Qaeda&#8217;s Nusra Front, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-26865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26868,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26865\/revisions\/26868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26865"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=26865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}