# Obama orders clandestine support of Syrian rebels **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 1, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-orders-clandestine-support-of-syrian-rebels/630116 "2012-08-01T23:10:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 67
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-orders-clandestine-support-of-syrian-rebels/630116/67 "2012-08-03T02:26:56Z")
> [@chappy](#): > > I wonder how the United States would react if Russia intervened militarily in the Mexican theater in an attempt to stop the barbaric slaughter of innocent lives along the US border? You mean, the thing that isn’t actually happening in reality? How does one stop that? As for Russian putting troops on the US border, try to see how that’s different from the US taking military action not on the Russian border. > [@What is the origin and purpose of Jehovah's Witnesses?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-and-purpose-of-jehovahs-witnesses/630088/75): > > Perhaps if we _educate ourselves_ first Unsurprisingly, one of the ways we educate ourselves is by using actual citations to support claims we make instead of just spouting nonsense that’s counterfactual and then demanding that people believe us. > [@What is the origin and purpose of Jehovah's Witnesses?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-and-purpose-of-jehovahs-witnesses/630088/75): > > We don’t have long… Because the Jews/Jehova’s Witnesses and British crown are conspiring to bring about a nuclear holocaust any day now, as you’ve said. Me… I’m not feeling all that rushed. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-orders-clandestine-support-of-syrian-rebels/630116)._