The Moderate’s Prayer; Applications Now Being Taken; Distinguishing Friends From Enemies

Distinguishing Friends From Enemies
It’s tough distinguishing friends from enemies, especially when allies don’t agree who the enemies are, and our enemies have the same primary goal as us!
For example, please note Syria Rebels Dismayed by US Air Attacks on Non-Isis Groups.
In the course of Syria’s nearly four-year civil war, Ahmed Hamadi an anti-regime rebel, often hoped western intervention would help his cause. But when it finally came, it killed his neighbours and their children.
‘We asked for western strikes to come and support our fight to free Syria, not to kill us,’ sighed the Army of Islam fighter. He described by phone how he pulled out the bodies of women and children from the wreckage of a residential building destroyed in the village of Kafr Daryan, about 50km west of Aleppo.

This post was published at Global Economic Analysis on September 24, 2014.