Prediction: This will come back to haunt the US many fold.
So, once again, the people we will be fighting two years from now will be people we trained, fighting with weapons we gave them. Brilliant.
Like we paid Solyndra to make solar panels?
So is he suggesting that we do nothing or that we send the army in and invade Syria?
Prediction: they won’t fight ISIS, and we will be effectively arming ISIS.
What if the newly armed ‘rebels’ turn and use their weapons against Assad instead of ISIS? Or they join up with ISIS? Or surrender to or are defeated by ISIS? What happens to the weapons? We have fools in DC and GOP just voted for Zero’s loser objectives. Rolled again by Bamster.
Why is this framed as ‘paying others to fight for us’?
This is not our fight so no one would be ‘fighting for us, in our place’.
Nor should we be there in person with our own troops fighting Assad ... or whomever the current person or group is that we are supposed to be fighting ... it seems very flexible and arbitrary at best.
boots on the ground means the wonderboy has now declared he is a flip-flop
America is NOW in the ‘client war’ business... and holding our own.
“O” is striving to make America the premier paymaster in this industry!
Thanks “O”!!
“It appears cowardly, and even immoral to pay others to fight for you.”
Congress wouldn’t be fighting were it to declare war, so they’d be paying people to fight for them anyway. Their only alternative would be to reinstate the draft, in which case soldiers would fight not for money but to avoid hard labor and ignominy. Besides, it’s misleading to say they’re fighting for us. They fighting for Syrians and Iraqis, or something, and Kurds and, as usual, Israelis, but only very indirectly for us.
By the way, “appears”? Is it or isn’t it? Is this yet another commentary on the shadow play that is politics, or is this writer of the “well, if you ask me,” “just my humble opinion, but” “seems to me,” “I feel,” “kinda-sorta,” “almost,” “as if,” “like, you know whatever,” school?
Americans have little appetite for anymore GWB/McCain/Grahamnesty massive ground wars in these poor Islamic crap holes, and rightly so,
I thought the Rats didn’t like “Outsourcing.”.....
Worked for King George III, what could go wrong?