Posted on 10/12/2015 8:29:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai
President Obama now says he never believed in the $500-million program to train and equip the moderate Syrian opposition.
The administration last week halted the failed program, which ended up training fewer than 100 Syrians, all but four or five of whom deserted or died after the Americans tried to turn them into anti-ISIS fighters.
Steve, this is why Ive been skeptical from the get-go about the notion that we were going to effectively create this proxy army inside Syria, Obama told CBS Steve Kroft during an interview for 60 Minutes.
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Thanks BO
Obama doesn’t seem to know very much at all.
He was against it but spoke strongly for it because...
Now using Kerry speak.
Interesting modification of his usual “pleading incompetence” excuse... he’s instead trying to claim he “told us so” when in fact he wasn’t even interested enough in the topic to give it a moment’s thought or a day’s labor. The truth is, he’s Commander-In-Chief, like it or not, and his job isn’t to have doubts and piss money away anyway, it is to make a decision about doing something and then doing it with all your might to the best of his ability or else choosing an alternative action to carry out to the best of his ability- not doing anything at all because he’s been sleeping in for 7 years while letting his JV team of Center for American Progress advisors try to handle these things is not an excusable option.
The country is in the hands of a high school burnout.
What does that say about an electorate that put him there?
I wonder what Obama would have done if he had been President when that decision was made? /s
“I was against the Bay of Pigs from the very beginning”
—JFK
Can you imagine?
The ‘get- go’?
Oy. Looking forward to having a man in the White House, or, not to be sexist, an adult.
Imagine Patton or scwartzkopf saying ‘the get-go’ about an evil dictator sworn to decimate the U.S.
Lest we forget the Rinos and their ROE have led to this disaster that keeps on giving.
I don't think Bath-house Barry ever thought the Rooskies or anyone else would be killing off his allies in large numbers though.
“I just drove the car, I wasn’t the shooter.”
Like a two-legged snail, Obama leaves a slime trail behind him.
But we are air dropping the weapons and ammo because it's too dangerous for our military to deliver them in person.
Nothing Il Douchebag says surprises me any more. There is no point in listening to a single word he says. I bagan my boycott of his speech before his 1st innauguration which I didn’t bother to watch.
That POS is clueless about everything.
Obama was skeptical From the Get-Go?
OMG - if Obama knew, he should have tracked someone down - someone in charge - and told them about his concerns...
Is there anyone in DC who’s like a ‘commander in Chief’? You know, someone who had the authority to make changes? /s
How many more F-22’s would that have bought?
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