President Barack Obama has decided to arm Syrian rebels, aka untrained civilian extremists, with small arms and ammunition, while at the same time he is preaching gun control at home. Clearly that decision shows he has lost his mind.

I do not understand how anyone can try and make the argument for gun control in the U.S. and drop millions of dollars in ammunition in countries all over the world. A child dying from gunfire is as great a tragedy in another country as it is here.

And if anyone really believes that U.S. officials have no plans to introduce U.S. troops, he is blind — Syria is the next Iraq.

Lisa Hall, Lewiston