War of the Sects

As everyone knows, Sen. John McCain this week slipped into Syria and posed for pictures with some difficult to identify young Sunni rebels. Like all of us McCain is unhappy with the brutality of Syria's civil war--Sunnis vs. Shias--but unlike some of us, the bellicose senator demands that we send heavy arms to the Sunni side. That is his solution. Sen. Rand Paul has pointed out that if we ship in heavy weapons, we might be handing over surface-to-air missiles to Al Qaeda. For some reason Sen. Paul does not want to arm Al Qaeda.  Paul does not trust them not to attack passenger planes filled with civilians and so forth. Here is my problem. I'm on the same side as Rand Paul.