Syria's Assad Is Receiving Blowback From Decisions Made Years Ago To Support Al Qaeda

Al Qaeda ‘Rat Line’ From Syria To Iraq Turns Back Against Assad -- Washington Times

Syrian President Bashar Assad’s anti-U.S. strategy during the 2003-11 Iraq War has come back to bite him.

Mr. Assad allowed al Qaeda operatives to set up a “rat line” through his country and into northeastern Iraq. Hundreds of young terrorists, many recruited from North Africa, took airline flights into Damascus and joined networks ready to sneak them across the border.

Mr. Assad’s objective: to keep the U.S. occupation off balance by helping al Qaeda kill Americans.

But Mr. Assad’s move also enabled al Qaeda to set up a logistics foothold in Syria that now is being used against him.

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My Comment: The Syrians are not the only ones who have made this mistake .... U.S. arming of Islamic militants in Afghanistan against the Soviets in the 1980s resulted in the eventual rise of Al Qaeda/Taliban and having many of those individuals/fighters going to war against us .... a conflict that is still ongoing.