Keeping with the focus of today…..foreign policy.  Syria is on NO one’s mind at this time………but the US and the UK have done something that got little attention thanx to the endless brain numbing Obamacare rhetoric……..

(Newser) – The US and Britain have cut off aid to Syria’s opposition, after Islamist rebel groups seized bases loaded with Western-provided goods from their former Free Syrian Army colleagues. The move won’t affect humanitarian aid, a US embassy spokesman tells the BBC, but rather the “non-lethal” military assistance the countries have been providing, like radios and body armor. The Islamic Front, a massive coalition of Jihad-minded groups that recently broke from the FSA, seized the facilities last week, capturing anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets among other supplies.

“We hope our friends will rethink and wait for a few days when things will be clearer,” said a spokesman for the FSA, which Reuters points out, desperately needs international backing to maintain its legitimacy. The move comes on the heels of two high-profile kidnappings by Islamist groups. Major Syrian human rights lawyer Razan Zeitouneh was abducted yesterday along with three of her colleagues, the New York Times reports, just hours after two Spanish journalists were kidnapped in a separate incident.

Is this a good direction?  I think that the US learned a lesson in Afghanistan in Wilson’s day………you cannot support the fundies and not supervise what they are doing or what they really hope to accomplish……throwing money at the problem simply because you do not approve of the current leader is a waste of time, money and effort.

This situation will become even more murky in 2014……..the map will give my reader a good look at the problems to come……..make NO mistake even with Assad gone….the problems will only be amplified……

The only really good news coming out of Syria is that Assad’s CWs most if not all have been located, tagged and await final destruction…….the really bad news is that there is a snake in the grass and is just waiting for the best time to strike……the jihadists are that snake and this situation will almost guarantee that they will be a threat to all regimes in the area for years to come……..

Foreign policy will play a roll in the debates of 2014….the problem is that most of the policy will be driven by politics……there is a mid term election after all…….political rhetoric can do as much harm as a weapon.