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Trump ends covert CIA program to arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria
The Washington Post ^ | 07/19/17 | Greg Jaffe and Adam Entous

Posted on 07/19/2017 1:51:22 PM PDT by Enlightened1

President Trump has decided to end the CIA’s covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad, a move long sought by Russia, according to U.S. officials.

The program was a central plank of a policy begun by the Obama administration in 2013 to put pressure on Assad to step aside, but even its backers have questioned its efficacy since Russia deployed forces in Syria two years later.

Officials said the phasing out of the secret program reflects Trump’s interest in finding ways to work with Russia, which saw the anti-Assad program as an assault on its interests. The shuttering of the program is also an acknowledgment of Washington’s limited leverage and desire to remove Assad from power.

Just three months ago, after the United States accused Assad of using chemical weapons, Trump launched retaliatory airstrikes against a Syrian air base. At the time, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, said that “in no way do we see peace in that area with Assad at the head of the Syrian government.”

Officials said Trump made the decision to scrap the CIA program nearly a month ago, after an Oval Office meeting with CIA Director Mike Pompeo and national security adviser H.R. McMaster ahead of a July 7 meeting in Germany with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aid; assad; ends; pompeo; rebels; russianpuppet; russianstooge; russiasucks; second100days; syria; trump; trumpcia; trumpforeignpolicy
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Good!!!

We should have never been funding Al-Qaeda, who attacked us on September 11th, 2001, in Syria in the first place. Why have the political appointees Leftist at the CIA sided with the enemy of our Republic?

All those involved in the funding should be immediately fired, arrested, all assets seized, interrogated and charged with high treason.

I love how the Leftist at the Washington Post are trying to say President Trump is working with Moscow. This coming from the same paper that whined for decades about Senator Joe McCarthy. Now they try to red scare the public.

Keep in mind too this is also the same paper that for almost a century defended the communist atheists in the Soviet Union during their 70 year reign.

1 posted on 07/19/2017 1:51:22 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Outstanding. Someone go tell Ace McCain while he is recuperating.


2 posted on 07/19/2017 1:53:36 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Why defend the EU?)
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To: Psalm 144
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3 posted on 07/19/2017 1:54:46 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Good. What is a moderate rebel?


4 posted on 07/19/2017 1:54:53 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Enlightened1

Remember, we funded the ‘rebels’ in Afghanistan against the Soviets and wound up with Bin Laden and 9-11................


5 posted on 07/19/2017 1:55:36 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Parley Baer

Exactly there are no moderates...

They are all jihadist groups


6 posted on 07/19/2017 1:56:53 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Deep State stupidity of the highest order.

It is such “arming of rebels” which lead to the formation of Al Qaeda and 9/11 in the first place.

Everything has consequences particularly with Islam. Henry Kissinger said - the solution to one problem is often the price of admission to a whole new set of greater problems.


7 posted on 07/19/2017 1:57:42 PM PDT by PGR88
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Good! They were all ISIS and AQ anyway. Illegal attempt to assassinate a head of state without Congressional approval.


8 posted on 07/19/2017 1:58:02 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Red Badger

Thanks to Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.


9 posted on 07/19/2017 1:59:17 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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President Trump has decided to end the CIA’s covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad, a move long sought by Russia, according to U.S. officials.

Given that there is no such thing as "moderate Syrian rebels," the USA may save Christian's lives by discontinuing a baseless and destructive policy.

10 posted on 07/19/2017 1:59:51 PM PDT by olezip
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Oh, and he’s responsible for Mika and Joe as well.......................


11 posted on 07/19/2017 2:00:54 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: PGR88

Yep close one door and more doors open up.

Henry Kissinger also said you can have war in the middle east without Egypt..., but you cannot have peace in the Middle East without Syria.


12 posted on 07/19/2017 2:01:26 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Red Badger

Psycho Joe and Mika.

Mika better watch out for Joe. They don’t call him psycho for nothing.


13 posted on 07/19/2017 2:04:41 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Psalm 144

I wonder if he intentionally waited for McCain to go under the knife before doing this....


14 posted on 07/19/2017 2:08:21 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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“President Trump has decided to end the CIA’s covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels”

The so called “moderate Syrian rebels” were actually Muslim terrorists who formed ISIS and other terrorist groups.

ISIS was created, armed and funded by the Obama Administration.


15 posted on 07/19/2017 2:08:27 PM PDT by detective
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I pray that President Trump will fully reveal what Obama , Clinton , Petraeus and other were up to in Benghazi


16 posted on 07/19/2017 2:09:21 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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"Why have the political appointees Leftist at the CIA sided with the enemy of our Republic?"

Because they are not working towards the same goals we have as a nation:

Us: Peace, security and prosperty within our own borders.

Them: A new world order with them leading and controlling the previously free nations of the world.

"All those involved in the funding should be immediately fired, arrested, all assets seized, interrogated and charged with high treason."

Yep. Absolutely every single one of them needs to be identified, prosecuted for crimes against our nation, and incarcerated for the rest of their lives.
17 posted on 07/19/2017 2:10:46 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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The “moderates” were never any major force in the “Syrian opposition”. Too much intended for “moderates” fell into the hands of the Islamist militias, and too many who were enlisted into training programs to arm “the moderates” fell to the Islamists in battles or joined them. It was NEVER a successful program. It was a Necon-McPain-Billary,Inc. program all along.


18 posted on 07/19/2017 2:14:38 PM PDT by Wuli
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Prayers for our brave President, the last President who started touching the CIA’s stuff didn’t live past his first term.

Please Lord, We Pray for Safety of our President Donald J. Trump! May his guardian angel be ever vigilant and have plenty of backup from heaven and from your children.


19 posted on 07/19/2017 2:17:20 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: Enlightened1

Good news. Very good news.

Now prosecute those responsible for continuing this program while they were cognizant that materiel was delivered to IS/AQ. This includes but is not limited to: Obama, Clinton, McCain, Pelosi, McConnell, Feinstein, Boehner, Reid, and Patraeus.


20 posted on 07/19/2017 2:19:23 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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