Should covert actions be taken to arm rebel groups in Syria?

[Rimasta]

After the U.N. veto by Russia and China regarding President Assad stepping down, and with continued indiscriminate violence against civilian targets by the ruling regime, should steps be taken perhaps covertly or openly to arm the free Syrian army with weapons? Perhaps Russian and Chinese made weapons would be more appropriate for the rebels for many reasons. One important one being that most of the rebels are Syrian army defectors and therefore have had training in the use of eastern armaments. Also, it allows nations in Europe and North America to not openly appear to be arming the rebels. Even though it may be obvious it may help if the rebels aren't using Western manufactured arms. Would anyone know the plausibility of this/possible implications?

[Feanor]

I'm not sure we can classify the violence as indiscriminate. The Syrian military seems to be fairly clumsy, but they are trying to suppress the rebellion. I suspect that there is a large amount of collateral damage because of the nature of the conflict, and the state of the Syrian military.

[Pendekar]

Bad for PR guy. How can you justify interfering in the internal affair of the sovereign state that happen to be in the hate list of Israel. Everyone will think this move was sanction for the benefit of Israel, and that would've only serve to heightened anti-west and anti-Israel mood in ME. Beside, this conflict look's more and more like some ambitious colonel who started a rebellion against Assad government and with the peoples who were trapped in between. This is hardly a popular uprising.

[Ananda]

Why should armed the Syrian rebels ? There's no oil in Syria, this is not Iraq or Libya which both have more economic value to begin with.
Also whose this rebel ?, What's their command structure ?
Whose going to come out from the rebels if they manage to overthrow current regime ?

I believe in Syria, the West will likely let the Arab's Brotherhood aka League solved the problem in Arab's brotherly fashion .