Just six months ago, the U.S. State Department warned Americans against travel to Syria’s imploding civil warzone. The report cited risk for “kidnappings,” “indiscriminate shelling,” and “aerial bombardment,” among other understandable safety concerns in a warzone. But it was not activities of Bashar Assad’s embattled Baathist regime the memo made reference to. In fact, the dictator’s name isn’t even listed once as any danger to American travelers, or any American for that matter. Instead, Al Qaeda in Iraq and its affiliate, the Al-Nusra Front, are mentioned by name as terrorist groups that had swept across Syria by storm. According to the travel warning, these Syrian rebels had claimed responsibility for nearly 600 attacks up to that point, in addition to 40 suicide bombings in public places. By the end of 2012, an Al Qaeda-linked militia had already established a presence in Lattakia, and rebel factions had forced at least one kid to carry out a Henry the 8th.
Since both groups are designated terrorist organizations by Obama’s own U.S. State Department. doesn’t his support for them make the president a financier of terrorism or terrorist allies under laws he won’t seek repeal of?