Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition

Makes one wonder how we would view a foreign country, say Syria, explicitly waiving restrictions on arms transfers to groups actively seeking the overthrow of the U.S. government.  Does might now make right to the extent that the constraints of the notion that one should not do to others what they do to one are entirely suspended?  It seems very unlikely that anyone in our political system will see anything at all unusual about the president's decision to allow the arming of terrorists in Syria for various purposes.  Covert action of this sort used to be regarded as sufficiently questionable to have to be kept plausibly deniable.  It seems worth speculating where the precedent set by this sort of transparent violation of national sovereignty is likely to take us and the world.

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Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition

By JOEL GEHRKE | SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

President Obama waived a provision of federal law designed to prevent the supply of arms to terrorist groups to clear the way for the U.S. to provide military assistance to "vetted" opposition groups fighting Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.