EA Video Analysis: Syria --- How and Why the US is Arming the Insurgents
Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 8:41
Scott Lucas in EA Middle East and Turkey, EA Video Analysis, Middle East and Iran, Syria


A six-minute guide to how and why the US --- despite public denials --- are involved in the supply of weapons to the Syrian insurgents, and what it means for the future of the conflict:

Washington wants to provide the insurgents with enough weapons to put pressure on the Assad regime, possibly leading to a coup, but not enough to bring about a final bloody conflict and the decimation of Damascus.

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