Posted on 09/19/2015 7:15:25 PM PDT by the_daug
The Obama administration's policy toward Syria and its more than four-year civil war is rapidly becoming a black mark on the president's legacy. And a scathing new report by Peter Baker of The New York Times details the mind-boggling decision by the White House to refuse to accept any responsibility. The blame for the failed US effort to train Syrian rebels to fight ISIS "should be pointed not at Mr. Obama but at those who pressed him to attempt training Syrian rebels in the first place," administration officials told Baker. There are only "four or five" US-trained rebels left fighting in Syria after a group of 60 were ambushed in August by the Al Qaeda branch in Syria, the Nusra Front.
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read it. has to be a whole lot of screaming going on at 1500 Penn ave.
At $100, 000, 000.00 each, I hope they are now well-trained.
“From the beginning I said it had a manufactured feel to it.”
You are correct, it was manufactured, just as this migrant crisis invading western nations, to overwhelm, redistribute and diminish nationalism and to further promote that demonic spirit that flees along with them, it is many things including not the least a spiritual incursion,
They are, they will not hesitate. They will drop their weapons and run before the first shot is fired at them.
Certainly, but avoiding involvement in Syria has been the right thing to do -- even i it was done clumsily.
There simply is no "right side" to be on; no desirable and achievable objective.
If anything, aren't our interests are best served by Syrians (and Russians and Hezbollah and Iranian Guards) slaughtering ISIS? And ISIS returning the favor...?
My Border Collie could have done a better job.
Oh, and she was half white and half black too.
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