Posted on 03/05/2015 8:44:41 AM PST by HomerBohn
John Allen, a retired US general who works as Obama's envoy to the international coalition that is combating ISIS, has made it very clear that the Obama administration will defend Syrian rebels, who are all Muslim jihadists, once they are in combat. He also made it clear that the US plans on training 15,000 of these jihadists over the next 3 years. As we read from the report:
The United States will be ready to "protect" moderate Syrian rebels, possibly with air power once they enter into combat, a top US official said March 2.
Retired US general John Allen, President Barack Obama's envoy to the international coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), insisted that once moderate Syrian rebels were vetted, trained and armed, they would not be abandoned on the battlefield.
"It is clearly part of our plan, that not only we will train them, and we will equip them with the latest weapons systems, but we will also protect them when the time comes," Allen said at an event organized by the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington.
Asked if the Syrian rebels would be asked to fight without air cover or a no-fly zone, Allen said "all of those things are under consideration."
"So it's important that you not believe that we would not support these fighters," he said.
He also said the coalition was "pleasantly surprised at the numbers" of Syrians ready to sign up for the fight against the ISIL group.
Apart from screening and training the moderate rebel force, the coalition would be "successfully protecting that force so that it does have operational capability," he said.
"It's certainly something that we are constantly watching."
Washington has clashed with other coalition members about its approach to Syria, preferring to focus for the moment on battling the ISIL group, while putting off any potential confrontation with the regime in Damascus.
Some foreign governments and US lawmakers have urged the Obama administration to take more decisive action against President Bashar al-Assad's regime and to carry out air strikes in support of rebels fighting both Damascus and the ISIL jihadists.
The US military said last week that initial training of a moderate Syrian opposition force will likely start in four to six weeks in Turkey.
Training will also take place in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
About 1,500 Syrians have been identified to take part and of those, about 100 had been screened, officials said.
The goal is train about 5,000 fighters in 2015 for a total of roughly 15,000 over three years.
All of these terrorists will take the US training and protection as a means to their evil end: the destruction of Christianity and the establishment for an Islamic state in the Middle East. With that said, America right now has one of the most wicked governments in the world. They are empowering all of the Islamic world to pursue jihadism, and for this does it have an ocean of Christian blood on its hands.
Isn’t this sort of what Carter and Reagan did in Afghanistan in the 80’s? At least provide weapons? And no, it won’t end well. Just like that didn’t.
I watched a 45 minute youtube this morning by John McArthur about Islam. It galvanized my opinion that there is no one there we should side with. No one there we should give arms to. No one there that will ever be our true friend (except Israel).
U.S. foreign policy is a complete mess. A real circus.
No, they are not insane, just plain stupid...my mama once said that “stupid is as stupid does!” and they are proving it is true
Quoth Bibi:
“The enemy of your enemy is your enemy”
That kind of crap worked really well for us when we armed the Afghans against the Russians . . . only to use our own weapons against us when we showed up to fight the war on terror in Afghanistan.
Among Muzzies, today’s freedom fighters usually becomes tomorrow’s genocidal maniacs. . . .
The real question is,
“Is this a short-sighted policy by Obama, or is he playing chess to intentionally anoint a group that will eventually become a huge thorn in our side?”
Obviously, Obama likes to take care of his Moslem friends.
Look for these characters to show up in America in a few years to attack and murder Americans.
Yet another, “Thank you Obama” moment.
My mantra in 2012, as the election neared, was that anyone who intended to vote for Obama was either stupid, ignorant, delusional or in on the grift. I should have added ‘ or an America hater’.
How much more so would they defend rioters when homeowners “attacked” them in defense of their homes?
Obama trying to establish a no-fly zone over Syria will cause the most dangerous confrontation since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The fool...
How did the first group act when faced with ISIS ?
They ran when they lost 67 men, and then joined ISIS
Oh yeah, they took our training, light arms, heavy arms and artillery, and tanks with them when they joined ISIS.
So now our allies are fighting our training, our armlament, our artillery and tanks.
How'd that work out for ya ?
No wonder there are more volunteers than expected
We are now ISIS biggest trainor and supplier
Wasn't it shown that the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center was financed out of Saudi Arbia ? Insanity is repeating the same behavior, and expecting a different outcome.
The enemy of your enemy is still your enemy (Bibi) is true in this case .
Would that be to protect the location and continued working order of the missing 20,000 MANPADS that had been given to Libyan rebels before Qadafi’s downfall?
HF
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