4 more:
1: The US has proven time and time again that it has zero ability to discern “friendlies” from “enemies” when it comes to these types of guerilla wars the US clumsily stumbles into. Jet fighters with transponders, no problems. This is a quick-patch shallowly-considered jerkball move taken for the purpose of appearing to do *something*. The more the US hates these kinds of wars (for plenty of good reasons) the more it is likely to make poorly-considered kabuki-theater moves like this.
2: This appears to generate 5K friendly fighters against an estimated 30K ISIS with good possibilities of doubling the ISIS forces over the year this is supposed to take to come to fruition. Yeah, that’ll work. 5 versus 60.
3: Considering the number of Muslim Brotherhood operatives now ensconced in the White House in the DHS plus the always present possibility that any FSA force we “create” will have numbers of spies, there is essentially zero chance of ever achieving any sort of surprise in any act this force will be charged with carrying out.
4: Especially because this is being done in this pre-election period, there will be no particular way to know, when our so-called leaders come back, whether this has any functionality to it. But by that time, it will be “let’s give it another year” no matter how good or bad it is working or not working by that time. In other words, there will be legislative inertia created here; the reluctance to shut this effort off, ever, no matter how badly (or wonderfully) it works out.
Bump