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US-Backed Syrian Rebel Group on Verge of Collapse
Stars & Stripes, via Military.com ^ | December 14, 2015 | Slobodan Lekic

Posted on 12/15/2015 11:03:47 AM PST by Timber Rattler

The main Western-backed Arab rebel group in Syria appears on the verge of collapse because of low morale, desertions, and distrust of its leaders by the rank and file, threatening U.S. efforts to put together a ground force capable of defeating the Islamic State and negotiating an end to the Syrian civil war.

"After five years of this war, the people are just tired ... and so are our fighters," said Jaseen Salabeh, a volunteer in the Free Syrian Army, which was formed in September 2011 by defectors from the army of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The Free Syrian Army, or FSA, some of whose members are trained by the Central Intelligence Agency, is the biggest and most secular of the scores of rebel groups fighting the Assad government. Although defeating the Islamic State is the focus of Western attention, the U.S. believes there can be no lasting peace in Syria, and no elimination of the Islamic State there, as long as Assad remains in power.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aidandcomfort; aidingandabetting; commanderinchief; epicfail; failuretoengage; failuretoexecute; failuretofight; failuretolead; harboringtheenemy; highcrimes; iraq; isis; muslimpresident; obama; obamafail; saudimaninwh; syria; traitor; treason; war
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1 posted on 12/15/2015 11:03:47 AM PST by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

can we send Juan McCain over to help them ... along with Obama and Valerie Jarrett ?


2 posted on 12/15/2015 11:06:37 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: Timber Rattler

Yet..another..failure.


3 posted on 12/15/2015 11:06:54 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: Timber Rattler

Obama’s three-step strategy for “fighting” ISIS.

1. Blame the Bush administration.
2. Falsely claim success while employing only enough token effort to manage ISIS off the front “media” pages.
3. Pass the whole mess to the next president.


4 posted on 12/15/2015 11:09:09 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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Oh well, I’m sure their US-provided weaponry won’t have to go to waste.


5 posted on 12/15/2015 11:09:31 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is libertye)
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To: Timber Rattler

Obama never gave a damn if the FSA succeeded or not. His aim was another theocratic government like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.


6 posted on 12/15/2015 11:09:35 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Correct


7 posted on 12/15/2015 11:12:49 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Timber Rattler
US-Backed Syrian Rebel Group on Verge of Collapse

This is what you get when you let your nation be run by an unqualified idiot who you put into office because he was a color that made you feel good.

8 posted on 12/15/2015 11:13:01 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Timber Rattler

In other words, Russia kicked our asses.


9 posted on 12/15/2015 11:13:31 AM PST by Lazamataz (It has gotten to the point where any report from standard news outlets must be fact-checked.)
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To: ScottinVA
Yet..another..failure.

And people still want to claim this Affirmative Action fool is some sort of "genius." He hasn't done anything right yet.

10 posted on 12/15/2015 11:13:56 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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“U.S. believes there can be...no elimination of the Islamic State there, as long as Assad remains in power.”

Ponder how stupid that statement is.


11 posted on 12/15/2015 11:14:13 AM PST by lacrew
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To: Blood of Tyrants
I said it before, and I'll say it again....

Once you accept that Obama's foreign policy is centered in the creation of a Muslim state in the Middle East, stretching from Libya to Pakistan, then EVERYTHING he's done falls into place.

12 posted on 12/15/2015 11:15:22 AM PST by cincinnati65
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To: C210N

Of course not. I’m sure that weaponry will end up in the hands of ISIS or Al Queda and will be used against our troops next time they are sent to the middle east. Or, perhaps even worse than that, they will be used against civilian targets in Europe or the USA.


13 posted on 12/15/2015 11:17:17 AM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Hmmmm, is this not the same group that was reported to be down to 5 members?


14 posted on 12/15/2015 11:17:51 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Blame goes to the Congress....for letting Obama stay in the WH.


15 posted on 12/15/2015 11:18:04 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: cincinnati65

Absolutely.


16 posted on 12/15/2015 11:18:41 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: Timber Rattler

These guys are allied with Al Qaeda. Good riddance.


17 posted on 12/15/2015 11:22:05 AM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: Timber Rattler
trained by the Central Intelligence Agency...

The CIA has outlived its usefulness, assuming it had any. This spook operation has done nothing over the last sixty years except prop up some dictators, topple others, stir up crap across the globe, train our future enemies, and operate as a true shadow government completely outside any sort of oversight or accountability. They came into existence as a counter-weight to the likes of nazi intelligence and the KGB. Those entities are gone... our cold war troublemakers remain.
18 posted on 12/15/2015 11:34:20 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: DiogenesLamp

“He hasn’t done anything right yet.”
As far as Cloward-Piven goes, he’s on a roll.


19 posted on 12/15/2015 11:44:34 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: lacrew

It is STUPID.


20 posted on 12/15/2015 11:45:55 AM PST by Rusty0604
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