Posted on 09/14/2014 2:42:13 PM PDT by NYer
One of the key components of the strategy President Obama outlined in his speech earlier this week to fight ISIS was to arm and train Syrian rebels to fight ISIS. Obama and others like Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) assure us that the Syrian rebels are “vetted moderates” who only want to bring freedom to Syria.
Well, this component of the Obama strategy appears to be falling apart. ISIS and some of the “moderate” rebel factions have signed a non-aggression pact pledging to concentrate on fighting the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad.
The Huffington Post has more:
According to Agence France-Presse, ISIS and a number of moderate and hard-line rebel groups have agreed not to fight each other so that they can focus on taking down the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Other sources say the signatories include a major U.S. ally linked to the Free Syrian Army. Moreover, the leader of the Free Syrian Army said Saturday that the group would not take part in U.S. plans for destroying the Islamic State until it got assurances on toppling Assad.
The deal between ISIS and the moderate Syrian groups casts doubt over President Barack Obama’s freshly announced strategy to arm and train the groups against ISIS.
The AFP report cited information from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based group monitoring the Syrian civil war, which said parties to the agreement “promise not to attack each other because they consider the principal enemy to be the Nussayri regime.” The term Nussayri refers to the Alawite ethnic group that Assad and many of his supporters belong to. AFP said the agreement was signed in a suburb of the Syrian capital, where ISIS has a strong presence.
This comes as the Obama administration is having problems assembling the coalition it promised to fight ISIS. In fact, if the Syrian rebels continue to exit the fight, it will reduce the “broad coalition” to fight ISIS down to a grand total of four members.
As the Obama administration continues to fail to assemble a coalition and some of the coalition partners continue to be unreliable at best, it maybe time to consider a change of strategy. This current “strategy” appears to be falling apart before it even gets put into place.
WRONG!!! Obama NEVER mentioned ISIS. The "Commander in Cleats" refers to these rebels with one and only one term:
There is a reason for this but the media have not questioned it and still use the term ISIS. When referencing the words of Obama, it is incumbent on all of us to properly cite his term ISIL, whatever his reasons may be. The term may be interchangeable, but not for O.
Of course they’ll take the FOOL’s money! (our money)
My initial thought on bh0 arming Syrian rebels was that they would transfer those weapons to ISIS. This ‘cease fire agreement’ IMO lays the basis for that to happen. And seeing that the entire Benghazi massacre was probably based upon the US ambassador working to provide transport of Libyan weapons to the Syrian rebels.....
He’s been arming our enemies since the day he took office.
Appears that soetoro's mouth has written a check his a$$ can't cash.
McCain ain’t in that picture. ‘Must’ve been in the kitchen.
Because most of the GOP is bought like the Democrats.
I’m really liking Assad lately - scumbag cut throat that he is.
I’m really getting sick and tired of my fellow rightists, FReepers included, harping on Obama abbreviating the State Department’s favored Englishing of an Arabic name, rather than the one the MSM favors, and acting as if it has some dark significance.
As I have posted before:
This is actually an example of the stopped clock phenomenon: Obama is right to call the group ISIL, though ISIS, when what the letters stand for is correctly understood is also correct. The people who are wrong are those who assert that the second S stands for Syria.
The group’s Arabic name before it proclaimed the restoration of the Caliphate was Al-Dawla Al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham, which Englishes The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (abbreviating to ISIL) — al-Sham being the Arabic word for the Levant. If one wants to be exotic, one Englishes it as The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (abbreviating to ISIS), and if one wants to be deceptive and hide the group’s ambition to minimize the threat, one pretends the second S stands for Syria, which is what the MSM has been doing, while State and Obama, but translating the last word to English before abbreviating are getting it right.
Alternatively, could favor the Arabic abbreviation that renders in Roman characters as DAISH, over both ISIL and ISIS. (Note the sh, rather than an s, there being an Arabic character for sh which is the first letter of Sham, while the Arabic character for s is not.)
We can’t even get Ditch Mitch to agree to a non-aggression pact.
Kind of like Hitler and Stalin?
This is not news - it’s rubbing our faces in it.
Since at least early 2012 it’s been publicly reported that Free Syria Army is Al Qaeda.
Obama, McCain, Clinton, Kerry, - they ALL KNOW THIS YET CONTINUE TO ARM THEM. THEY ARE KNOWINGLY ARMING AL QAEDA.
I just call it the revived Caliphate.
Ten minutes pass, Obama steps into yet another manure filled bucket and cannot get unstuck. Dudley Don’t Do-right.
The copulate caliphate. Sheep this way ——>
They just want to help defeat Assad and then the non aggression pact is off and ISIS will cut through the “moderates” like a hot knife through butter.
After that its on to Lebanon which will take about a week and then on to Jordan.
Except for a very few, yeah.
It’s obvious whose side our fearless leader is on.
Fast & Furious Foreign Edition for domestic consumption/subjugation.
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