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US plan to train ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels raises troubling questions
The Conversation ^ | 29 January 2015 | Rodger Shanahan

Posted on 01/31/2015 5:15:53 PM PST by Lorianne

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To: Lorianne

New ISIS units + Moderate rebels with American arms, raining, and money. Maybe we will send dome officers to continue their training after they shift their allegiance.


21 posted on 01/31/2015 6:12:01 PM PST by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: Lorianne

Idiots! This is where ISIS came from! Google ISIS images(if you have a strong stomach) and then imagine your tax dollars funding these people..


22 posted on 01/31/2015 6:16:45 PM PST by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: Cicero

It is not the wrong side from the viewpoint of a Moslem.


23 posted on 01/31/2015 6:28:46 PM PST by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: BenLurkin

A moderate jihadi will cut your head off with a sharp heavy axe. A moderate uses a dull pocketknife and a screwdriver.


24 posted on 01/31/2015 6:30:42 PM PST by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: Lorianne

Look how well that worked back in the 1980’s when we armed the mujaheddin in Afghanistan.

It came back to haunt us on 9/ii/2001


25 posted on 01/31/2015 6:51:24 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - Open Up!" "Must be another UPS delivery, honey.")
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To: 4rcane

Stop this and side with Syria’s Assad to stamp out IS. In this Putin was right. I know Assad is a blood tyrant—but so was stalin and we sided with him against Hitler. Maybe we could get him to pull back his murderious thugs (hey they were good to Christians). Support him and end IS and their murder cult Caliph. Maybe send troops to fight along side of Russia (add japan too) and stamp out this like the Brits did to the Mahdi in Sudan long ago.


26 posted on 01/31/2015 7:01:12 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Lorianne

Moderate Syrian rebels are considerate enough to sharpen the blade properly for a quick, humane beheading of infidels.


27 posted on 01/31/2015 7:56:05 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: Lorianne
Kurdish Peshmerga capture hundreds of ISIS as prisoners after Battle of Kirkuk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHrRmaDwmhE

28 posted on 01/31/2015 8:00:05 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (re (`("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))
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To: House Atreides

These are kinda moderate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ygIInLSUk


29 posted on 01/31/2015 8:29:19 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (re (`("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))
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To: Lorianne
WTH

WTH BUMP!

30 posted on 01/31/2015 9:09:39 PM PST by PGalt
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To: rdcbn

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Very astute description of the difference!


31 posted on 02/01/2015 9:13:49 AM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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