Let's Pick Our Poison

Hello My Dear Friends! I've heard your pleas and I'm here to help. 'PoKitty', you say, 'who should we trust in the Middle East'? First, let me say, it's "whom" should we trust, not "who". Anyway, the latest news tells use that our Government has decided to "back" the "moderate" Syrian rebels in our battle against ISIS. Is this the right move? LOL! I guess that depends which side you're actually on. My Friends, the Middle East is not as complicated as those in charge would have you believe. Even though there are countless factions at war in the region, there are really only two sides. There are the Sunnis and the Shias. They've been at war since the death of their Prophet Muhammad some 1400 years ago. The main difference between the two sides is more political than spiritual. Simply put, Sunni Muslims follow the elected Muslim leader where Shia Muslims follow Imams, who they believe have been anointed by the Prophet himself. The Kurds are Sunnis. They have always been our allies. Their army, the Peshmerga, has been battling ISIS to protect their land in Northern Iraq which they consider Kurdistan. The "moderate Syrian rebels" are Shias. They have never been our allies. The President's plan would require the Kurds and the Syrian rebels to fight together against their common enemy ISIS. This, for several reasons, will never happen. First, it assumes that the Kurds actually care what happens to Bagdad. They do not. Second, it assumes they will fight along side their enemies. They will not. All the Kurds care about is protecting their little piece of the world. Our plan to "back" the Syrian rebels is a slap in the face to the Kurds as it means that we are, in fact, backing the Shias, their enemy. Now, you ask, how do we know which Syrian rebels to train and arm? Well, I suspect it will be the ones that have been on the US payroll for over a year. WHAT? Yup. We have been paying the salaries of thousands of Syrian rebels who turned against Bashar Assad over a year ago. Tens of millions of dollars. The funny thing is, many of those rebels have ties to al Qaeda but we're paying them anyway. So, since they're already on the payroll, we may as well train and arm them. It's not like they're going to turn on us, right? I mean, if we can't trust al Qaeda to protect us whom can we trust. We're also going to re-train and re-arm the Iraqi army. These would be the guys who turned tail and ran when ISIS approached. That's why they have to be re-armed. They turned over all of the arms we already gave them to the enemy so they could run faster. It's very difficult to teach courage but I guess we'll try again. This, My Dear Friends, is our current "Foreign Policy". I don't know about you, but it certainly makes me feel safe.
Po