"... "The principals all agreed to this and from the president it came back as Band Aids and halalhappy meals, which is far less than we can do," said Andrew Tabler, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Tabler views the president's move as a de facto rejection of the idea of providing the Free Syrian Army with anything it could use to turn the military tide against the army of Syrian President Bashar al Assad. "I think it's pretty clear that the White House is rejecting this," said Tabler. "If that recommendation comes to the White House and it gets dialed back, it tells us that the president doesn't want to go in that direction but the rest of the bureaucracy does...."
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