White House' Chief of Staff: No arms to Syrian deserters!

"... "The last thing that is needed in Syria now is more violence," Jacob Lew told "Fox News Sunday."Instead, Lew said the U.S. is working with the Arab League and other partners to bring "serious financial pressure" on Syria. He said Assad's government is "feeling it."...

But Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., said Assad has become emboldened since China and Russia vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at creating a peace plan for Syria that would include Assad's removal. 

Lieberman & Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who took over after Usama bin Laden's death, (both said that) arming the Syrian rebels would not only help them get a leg up on Assad, whose army is being aided by Iran and Russia, but would lead to a defeat "for the fanatical regime in Iran." (and told Muslims) in Syria's neighboring states to rise up against Assad  to rid the country of the "pernicious, cancerous regime."