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US Special Forces sabotage White House policy gone disastrously wrong with covert ops in Syria
SOFREP ^ | 09/14/2016 | Jack Murphy

Posted on 09/21/2016 5:39:13 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol

Edited on 09/21/2016 6:28:23 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

“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.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: cia; military; obamasyria; syria; syriarebels; syriawar
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Col. Pat Lang, like Murphy a former Green Beret, has good follow up comments on this. Lang was the Middle East expert at the DIA and former West Point professor. His blog piece commenting on Murphy's article can be found here at Sic Semper Tyrannis Blog.

The first paragraph of Col. Lang's comments:

"One of the major points of this article is that the CIA doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the Islamic State in Syria or Iraq. By the end of 2014 there were only twenty CIA targeting officers and analysts were dedicated to IS. By early 2016, it was not much better. Instead, the CIA neurotically focused on removing Assad from power by any means possible. This laser focus was established by Brennan. I surmise this focus is shared by most in the Obama Administration."

[excerpt: go to link above for the rest]

1 posted on 09/21/2016 5:39:13 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
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To: AC Beach Patrol

Bttt.


2 posted on 09/21/2016 5:43:35 AM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: AC Beach Patrol

Is Brennan not the guy who converted to islam?

This administration is on the side of ISIS. They want the islamic caliphate established. When you look at what they’re doing, nothing else makes sense.


3 posted on 09/21/2016 5:44:36 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: AC Beach Patrol

Create the chaos/fitna. Fund those collectives. Train/teach the overt and covert. Transport them to select countries for more destabilization/fundamental transformation. Mission accomplished.

TREASON - continuous, in-your-face, pre-meditated, agenda-driven, agency-abetted, representative-enabled, media-complicit, court-sanctioned, ongoing...

Destroy language, borders, culture, country. Re-create for desired effect.

Coming to a country near you...oh, wait..

TREASON


4 posted on 09/21/2016 5:45:17 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: AC Beach Patrol

That is what you get with a President who despises the military and hates America.


5 posted on 09/21/2016 5:45:59 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: AC Beach Patrol

Brennan needs to be fired as soon as Trump takes the oath. The whole Syria focus is screwed up and needs to be dismantled.


6 posted on 09/21/2016 5:46:01 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: AC Beach Patrol

Bookmark.


7 posted on 09/21/2016 5:47:25 AM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: AC Beach Patrol

I didn’t believe the bombing “accident” the other day either. Thought right away it was intentional.


8 posted on 09/21/2016 5:48:27 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: JudyinCanada

I cannot be the only one that remembers all of the American equipment that the ISIS goonsn ere running around with.

Obama is disgusting:


9 posted on 09/21/2016 5:50:07 AM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016)
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To: pepsionice
A tough atty general needs to indict and prosecute hundreds of treasonous criminals.

We uneducated in law can document hundreds of cases that sure seem lock down tight convictions and "the powers that be" ... including and ESPECIALLY so called Conservatives never seem to get anything started.

Probably because of America's own death squad(s) that take out political dissidents (against the clintons)

(Leave Duterte alone, he admits to wanting to clean up corruption and America admits to nothing)

10 posted on 09/21/2016 5:53:14 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true ... and it pisses people off)
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To: WMarshal

Obama is an enemy. There’s not a doubt in my mind.


11 posted on 09/21/2016 5:54:02 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: AC Beach Patrol

Bkmk


12 posted on 09/21/2016 5:54:46 AM PDT by SE Mom (Deplorable and Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: AC Beach Patrol

Source is Iranian news but watch to see if it trickles into mainstream
Russian attack ISIS HQ, guess who’s there
Surprise surprise
“Several US, Turkish, Saudi, Qatari and British officers were also killed along with the Israeli officers. The foreign officers who were killed in the Aleppo operations room were directing the terrorists’ attacks in Aleppo and Idlib.”

http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950631000607


13 posted on 09/21/2016 5:55:08 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: JudyinCanada

“Is Brennan not the guy who converted to islam?”

That’s what people say. I don’t know if that has been confirmed.


14 posted on 09/21/2016 5:56:04 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: JudyinCanada

There’s an old saying about Washington: “It’s not what they say, it’s what they do.” This administration says one thing but is clearly doing another. They support anything that advances the Islamic agenda.


15 posted on 09/21/2016 5:58:59 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: vladimir998

Judge by his and Hussein’s actions.


16 posted on 09/21/2016 5:59:39 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: PGalt
TREASON - continuous, in-your-face, pre-meditated, agenda-driven, agency-abetted, representative-enabled, media-complicit, court-sanctioned, ongoing... Destroy language, borders, culture, country. Re-create for desired effect. Coming to a country near you...oh, wait.. TREASON

WELL SAID SIR!

17 posted on 09/21/2016 6:00:39 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: AC Beach Patrol

18 posted on 09/21/2016 6:00:50 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: AC Beach Patrol

Our good people who remain in the military are put in an impossible situation with this vile administration and its perverse foreign policies.


19 posted on 09/21/2016 6:01:31 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (One party feigns virtue, the other flaunts its corruption. May God reward both as they deserve.)
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To: silverleaf

Clearly nonsense propaganda. But only a less sophisticated than the other side’s stuff.


20 posted on 09/21/2016 6:02:27 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
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