Company of Marines on Syria-Jordan border
Times:
Three hundred US Marines have been deployed to northern Jordan to pave the way for the West to arm Syrian rebels.The rest of the story is behind their infamous paywall. The Marines are probably there to give the Jordanians some reassurance. Overall Obama's decision to send small arms to Syria appears to be too little and too late. Taking out the Assad regime's air force and destroying the Hezballah troops would probably do some good, but what has been proposed falls well short of what is needed. Many will ask why bother with small arms at this point, since our Arab allies are already providing that.
A Patriot anti-aircraft missile system, designed to protect Jordanian territory from attack by Assad missiles, has also been moved into the area.
The deployment, seen by The Times north of Al-Mafraq, has been put in place under cover of a military training exercise being held this week, but it will remain there for months.
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