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US Special Forces sabotage White House policy gone disastrously wrong with covert ops in Syria | SOFREP
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US Special Forces sabotage White House policy gone disastrously wrong with covert ops in Syria Jack Murphy | 09.14.2016
“Nobody believes in it. You’re like, ‘**** this,’” a former Green Beret says of America’s covert and clandestine programs to train and arm Syrian militias. “Everyone on the ground knows they are jihadis. No one on the ground believes in this mission or this effort, and they know they are just training the next generation of jihadis, so they are sabotaging it by saying, ‘**** it, who cares?’”
“I don’t want to be responsible for Nusra guys saying they were trained by Americans,” the Green Beret added. A second Special Forces soldier commented that one Syrian militia they had trained recently crossed the border from Jordan on what had been pitched as a large-scale shaping operation that would change the course of the war. Watching the battle on a monitor while a drone flew overhead, “We literally watched them, with 30 guys in their force, run away from three or four ISIS guys.”
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About the Author Jack Murphy is an eight year Army Special Operations veteran who served as a Sniper and Team Leader in 3rd Ranger Battalion and as a Senior Weapons Sergeant on a Military Free Fall team in 5th Special Forces Group. Having left the military in 2010, he graduated from Columbia with a BA in political science. Murphy is the author of Reflexive Fire, Target Deck, Direct Action, and numerous non-fiction articles about Weapons, Tactics, Special Operations, Terrorism, and Counter-Terrorism. He has appeared in documentaries, national television, and syndicated radio.
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This should be "REQUIRED READING" for ALL presidential candidates, except Gary Johnson. Why bother. Guido R
Jack... as an uniformed civilian myself but with some experience in management of large teams, reading your article gives me the distinct impression that cracks are appearing in the chain of command...?... From the civilian top, going all the way throughout the civic AND the armed forces / security construct... ? ... Earl Wyatt
The Russians have been saying this pretty much all along but of course being Russian they have zero credibility with those raised on a MSM forced diet. I wonder if you'll be able to get said MSM to publish this article? Rick V
Very well done Jack. Thank you. George E. Hand IV
"CIA-backed FSA elements will openly become al-Nusra, while Special Forces-backed FSA elements like the New Syrian Army will fight alongside the Assad regime. Then the CIA’s militia and the Special Forces’ militia will kill each other." That excerpt from the essay says it all for me. Geo sends
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I sent this to a couple old Military Academy grads.
Before the day is over, it should be resent many times.
Another prime example of how obama ‘builds’ American strength through absurd and addled interference in the nature of our military forces.
Our moronic president screws up everything he touches.
I remember when I was in Israel for 3 months in ‘98
I learned the Israelis didn’t worry too much about anyone other than Syria.
The size of the Egyptian army worried them but it was the Syrians that they watched 24/7.
You might want to repost this thread and your other posts to this thread on FR.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3471932/posts
Why Is The U.S. Still In Syria?
Townhall.com ^ | September 21, 2016 | Rachel Marsden
Posted on 9/21/2016, 11:22:30 AM by Kaslin
Thanks for the cleanup editing and keeping this incredible post on FR!
Thanks, this was posted earlier but I didn’t want to register.
Interesting.
Assad basically kept the Christians safe in Syria.
Something must have really worried the Israelis.
A friend, who has traveled to Egypt, Syria, Turkey and Israel a lot, has felt that those 4 countries and Russia might partner up re energy, tourism, and defense against the muslims who want to kill everybody else beside their hate groups.
paywall
Spot on.
Unfortunately, the fourth estate (MSM) has become a fifth column threat that intentionally undermines this country.
If the MSM uniformly distributed truth to our citizenry, we wouldn’t be in the terrible situation we’re now in.
The ongoing loyal collusion between leftist politicians and media is now known to be fact, courtesy of Wiki leak revelations and journalists who defected from the hive.
Obama, leftist politicians and their soulmate journalists own the death of TENS of THOUSANDS of ISIS victims, as well as the refugee misery suffered by MILLIONS.
RE: “The voters have been shockingly irresponsible, putting our military in a position where taking orders from their community-organizer-in-chief causes exceptionally grave damage to the security of the United States. The saddest part is that many voters were parasites or predators and didn’t care (some were merely uninformed, and I pray they are now better educated, thanks to the school of hard knocks). I hope, even among Obama voters, they have learned from the disastrous consequences of their mistakes in 2008 and 2012.
Note: The claim that “yes, it’s bad, but it would have been even worse without Obama” is patently absurd, both domestically and internationally.
Domestically, the recession has been over for seven years, and we are still not gaining jobs.
Internationally, Obama himself after the Iraqi election said that the country was stable, and it went from there to the chaos we now see with ISIS.
Yes, Bush started that ball rolling, but Obama allowed it to continue from a position he himself called stable to an absolute mess that is exporting terrorism.”
Bush got it rolling? As I recall, Bush led a Surge that had the country pacified and osamabama (I call him that because he’s done ever so much MORE damage than Osama) came in and gave the enemy a date certain for withdrawal, and we all know what happens when you give a date certain.
I’m with you and did so earlier.
Thanks!
To: Kaslin
Crucial post, Kaslin!
See related article from perspective of SpecOps forces in Syria carrying out Obola’s: Mission Boomerang.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3471902/posts
RE: “Why Is The U.S. Still In Syria?”
8 posted on Wed Sep 21 11:32:26 2016 by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
Very informative. But no mention of the National Security Council’s part in clipping wings to ensure mission failure.
Good!
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BTTT!
People would care if this stuff was covered in the newspaper and discussed and debated in the news, as it should be. They just don’t know about it. They get political slogans, political correctness and celebrity news.
BTTT
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