Posted on 07/19/2017 1:41:47 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
President Trump cancelled the CIA’s secret program to arm and train Syrian rebels fighting the regime of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad — a move critics called a gift to Russia, a new report said Wednesday.
“This is a momentous decision. Putin won in Syria,” a US official who supported the program told The Washington Post.
The program to arm moderate Syrian rebels began under the Obama administration in 2013 and was continued under Trump until now.
Officials told the paper that phasing out the covert program was a way to improve relations with Russia and President Vladimir Putin, who strongly opposed the effort.
The officials said the president made the call after an Oval Office sitdown with CIA Director Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster ahead of Trump’s meeting with Putin at the G20 in Germany on July 7.
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“McCain’s head is going to explode again.”
Good! Maybe this time it will finally kill him.
It’s good to see a President not afraid to do the right thing.
I don’t care that the interests of the US happen to be the very same interests of Russia...other than it appears to be an opportunity for greater detente.
But it most certainly and unambiguously is in the interests of the US to get the hell out of Syria...and to not spend a single red cent there.
Nor one more drop of blood.
These CIA programs have not worked out well for us. They are spreading terrorism.
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