Posted on 01/16/2015 6:21:56 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
The US Department of Defense is to send 400 troops and hundreds of support staff to train moderate rebels against Islamic State (IS) in Syria.
It is not yet clear where the troops will be drawn from or where they will be based, though Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have offered to host them.
The US aims to train more than 5,000 rebels annually for three years.
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Not a damn word of criticism from the media.
More McCainian arming of jihadis?
What are the chances that the U.S. will be training some ISIS troops in that group? Of course, we will.
I see that Syria was again offering to share intel on terrorism the other day.
Maybe while they’re over there they can go get some training from the Peshmerga.
Great another opportunity to resupply ISIS.
So now Obama is using US troops to train jihadis who will kill Westerners and Americans with the weapons and skills provided by the US.
Sounds like Vietnam......................
Who will they fight? Assad, ISIS, each other or join the ranks of one of the above? A cluster Obama of a result in waiting.
....aaaand become potential source of hostages
About a year and a half ago wasn’t ISIS then referred to as “Syrian rebels”?
Or tie GOP.
I hope they train them to shoot themselves in the face.
Or the GOP.
These are the Democrats doing this. You remember the Democrats? Frothing at the mouth over the Contras. Screaming about Cowboy Diplomacy. Yeah, those Democrats.
Now, they overthrow the government of Libya and train rebels for Syria?
Oh, the silence from the universities is deafening. All those professors can go hang themselves. The only things our universities teach are hypocrisy and cowardice.
The ‘moderate’ rebels are almost all disappeared. They are either dead or joined with ISIS.
It’s been decades since we made a good foreign policy move.
This will be a complete and total failure - must learn from experience, they cross over and become ISIS with our weapons in hand - this will probably cause the loss of American lives and for what - for nothing.
We need to help form a coalition of friendly nations to combat ISIS, AQ and Taliban with their troops and then support them in doing so. Friendly nations would include Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and and maybe a few others. Egypt hates the Muslim Brotherhood and is best positioned to lead such a like-minded coalition.
This reminds me of the pit bull fighting “industry”. They breed and train pit bulls, and then they wonder why so many people are getting mauled.
Stop——training——muzzies.
Yeah he is sending 400 troops to train 200 rebels. And the MSM swallows it whole.
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