Posted on 09/24/2014 5:26:05 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
A documentary filmmaker who spent time with the Free Syrian Army said that moderate rebels are “laughing” at President Obama’s plan to arm them against the Islamic State, claiming they simply “don’t take this seriously.”
Matthew VanDyke, an American filmmaker and a friend of executed journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, spoke with Fox News’s Shepard Smith about the White House’s plan to arm and train thousands of rebels affiliated with the Free Syrian Army, a more moderate rebel group that’s friendly with the West, in order to encourage them to fight the Islamic State.
VanDyke warned that removing the Islamic State from vast swathes of Syrian territory will create a “vacuum” that Assad-regime forces will rush to fill, leaving moderate rebels powerless to stop them. “When the administration announces that they intend to train 5,000 soldiers in Jordan, of the Free Syrian Army, to go and claim these territories, that figure doesn’t make any sense,” he said.
“It’s actually quite ridiculous,” the filmmaker continued. “I’m not sure how the administration even expects people to believe it.”
“Syrians on the ground are surely laughing at it,” VanDyke said. ”My contacts in Syria don’t take this seriously. They’re very concerned. They don’t want to be fighting the Assad regime’s battles for them by only going after ISIS.”
This contact clearly doesn’t understand - this has nothing to do with Assad or ISIS. The “plan” is to get through the upcoming elections intact only.
no surprise.
We are coming to get you and bomb you Obama stated nearly two weeks ago. ISIS moves and we bomb empty buildings.
We are getting out of Afghanistan, so the Taliban just waits. we announced we are getting out of Iraq and look at what has happened.
Obama and Jarrett have no clue about how to conduct themselves, foreign policy , or the military
“.. by only going after ISIS.”
Yeah that point keeps being made over and over.
It AIN’T gonna happen the way zero says it will.
Too bad a majority of the Congress and the dumbazzes in the admin don’t grasp it.
Heck, even I can see that...
Unless they meant for these things to happen.
They’re laughing even harder at the American people—who lack the wit to understand what’s going on.
Oh they have a clue all right and by now it should painfully obvious to all but the senile and small children, they are on the other side.
And we know this because....?
These are ALL Islamonozi Fascists!
These people will kill anyone who disagrees with their religion or politics.
And we are arming them against a secular dictator who has been protecting minorities in his country.
Do we really expect that when Assad is gone, Syria will be more friendly to us?
What kinds of idiots do we have in both parties?
“Obama and Jarrett have no clue about how to conduct themselves, foreign policy , or the military.”
I disagree. It is my opinion that they know exactly what they are doing and things are going the way that they want them to go.....a stronger ISIS/ISIL and discontent here. That is, after all, what they seek.
Most of our elected representatives these days are like idiot savants, prodigies in the art of obtaining and maintaining power, but mentally deficient at anything else.
What anyone can see is that ISIS and its principles are bring bombs down upon them from afar.
It’s called repudiation and degradation. Ergo, ISIS fighters will flee and join FSA.
Obama isn’t trying to kill muslim terrorists.
He is trying to convince voters that he is trying to kill muslim terrorists.
Everything Clown Prince nobama (and his anti-Free-America commie minions) does is intentional...and based in his hatred for the Constitution, the Rule of Law, the Bill of Rights and Freedom.
Those Rebels aren’t the only ones laughing . ...
What a frickin mess.
“The “plan” is to get through the upcoming elections intact only.”..........
BINGO, BINGO, BINGO, We have a WINNER!
I did notice in the damage photos that few of the facilities had a lot of vehicles near them....made me wonder if the buildings were empty.
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