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Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Weber, the director of the Institute for Historical Review from California, about the United States beginning to supply foreign-backed militants in Syria with advanced and high-powered weapons, according to a recent report.

Press TV: I’d like to pick up on the timing of this report. This comes of course as we just mentioned after a meeting between Obama and the Saudi King Abdullah. What do you make of that?

Weber: Well this is part of a continuing US policy. The reports about the nature of the weapons being supplied by the United States to the rebels are so conflicting. Some reports say that they are heavy weapons; some say they are not heavy weapons.

Reuters reported, a few days ago, a similar report about the renewed supply of weapons by the US government to the military. The timing is part of an ongoing continuing effort by the United States to overthrow the government in Syria as Barack Obama announced when the fighting really began taking off two years ago, but the Obama administration has seriously miscalculated because when the fighting began, Barack Obama and the US government calculated that the President Bashar al-Assad’s regime would fall very quickly and that has obviously not happened.

And now the United States is in a very difficult position because on the one hand it is committed to this policy of overthrowing the government but on the other hand it is obvious that the ability to do so is less and less with each passing month and opposition in the United States among the public has grown tremendously against American involvement in the Syrian conflict.

Press TV: So you are saying basically that we are now going to see an escalation of the way things are handled by the West and its regional allies with regards to Syria because there are reports that Prince Bandar bin Sultan is coming back to Saudi Arabia and he is going to be in charge of the Syrian file again and also on the other hand we are also getting reports that the US is now being indiscriminate about who the weapons go to.

At first it did claim that it wanted only “moderate forces” to get these weapons but that is no longer the policy.

Weber: Well there are some conflicting reports about that and US government is trying of course to get the weapons to forces which it hopes will be amendable and compatible with US policy and Israeli policy in the Middle East but that is increasingly difficult for the United States to do.

All the indications are there is a great deal of confusion and indecision within the Barack Obama administration about exactly what to do now, given that the miscalculation has been so great about the strength and durability of the Syrian government and about the weakness and the fractured nature of the opposition.