Iran to Send Contingent of 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria to Support President Bashar al-Assad's Forces Against the Largely Sunni Rebellion

Boy, things are really blowing up in the Middle East.

See, "Mideast Escalation: Iran to Send 4,000 Revolutionary Guards to Bolster Assad in Syria":

In years to come, historians will ask how America – after its defeat in Iraq and its humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan scheduled for 2014 – could have so blithely aligned itself with one side in a titanic Islamic struggle stretching back to the seventh century death of the Prophet Mohamed. The profound effects of this great schism, between Sunnis who believe that the father of Mohamed’s wife was the new caliph of the Muslim world and Shias who regard his son in law Ali as his rightful successor – a seventh century battle swamped in blood around the present-day Iraqi cities of Najaf and Kerbala – continue across the region to this day. A 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbott, compared this Muslim conflict to that between “Papists and Protestants”.

Well, we've got the clusterf-k Barack Obama as commander-in-chief at this point.

And to think, two years ago, U.S. boots on the ground might have done some good. At this point though, the administration's mostly backing al Nusra forces allied to al Qaeda in the Middle East.

Freakin' unbelievable.

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