For over a year I was anything but cordial to those idiots that put all the eggs in one basket in policy concerning the situation in Syria…..all the while war hawks like McCain was pushing the ultimate plan to avoid having to use American troops…..the failed program of arming and training those knights of virtue….the “moderate” rebels…..

The went to Hell from the beginning with the vetting of the “moderate” rebels…..it seems no one knew who they were or where to find them….other than in Syria.

The was so flawed that just last week the geniuses in Washington decided to suspend the program because of the glaring failures it has achieved…..the flop has cost the US in the neighborhood of $5oo million….but it has costed so much more than money……

The White House is pulling the plug on a strategy to train Syrian rebels that by all accounts has been an expensive flop. The $500 million Pentagon program that began in December had been designed to put more than 5,000 fighters on the ground this year alone to fight the Islamic State. The actual number of fighting soldiers as of last month: “four or five,” reports the New York Times. The AP notes the total number of soldiers to come out of the program is less than 80, and many of those were killed, captured, or took off. Not only that, but equipment such as pickup trucks and ammunition provided during the training has ended up in the hands of the al-Qaeda affiliate the Nusra Front.

“We have been looking for now several weeks at ways to improve that program,” defense chief Ashton Carter said in London today, per the AP. “I wasn’t satisfied with the early efforts in that regard.” The revised strategy will apparently have a much smaller scope, reports the Times. For example, instead of several training centers scattered around various countries to train rank-and-file soldiers, one smaller center in Turkey will focus on training opposition leaders. The AP reports that the US also plans to work more closely with Kurdish allies to embed recruits in their units, rather than trying to create stand-alone forces.

Mercifully the Pentagon has ended the debacle…..and as they say…..”back to the drawing board”…..hopefully the next brilliant plan will be more successful than this one……

We will not have to wait for very long……..

The Pentagon-run programme to train and equip moderate Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State jihadists is being overhauled, US officials said Friday. Speaking at a news conference in London, Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said he had been dissatisfied with the effort, which suffered disastrous blows in its early days.

“We have devised a number of different approaches… going forward,” Carter said. A senior US defence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, later said the programme was being “refocused to enhance its effectiveness”. The official said some training and embedding of rebels would continue to take place.

The initial results of the programme were roundly denounced as a flop, with one group of trainees giving ammunition and other equipment to an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group in Syria. Carter cited the work US trainers have done with Kurds in northern Syria as an example of how the training may be focused in the future.

Overhaul?  Refocus?  Does that sound like a new plan or just a tweak of a failed one?

But wait there is even more………keep in mind that the prgram is under scrutiny, right  If so then why is this ………

Currently sitting on President Obama’s desk is the National Defense Authorization Act of 2016 that, as could be predicted, doubles down on a bad bet and…wait for it!…authorizes $600 million for the mythical anti-ISIS/anti-Assad fighters. As it is not their money, why not open the national credit card wide to pursue a failed policy.

The authorization is in Section 1225 of the bill. Even as facts on the ground have suddenly gone very much against the US goal of fighting Assad and his enemies in the hopes that a replica of the US would magically emerge in Syria, the Beltway-ites will not back down (as long as it is other people’s blood and money).

Seriously?  Do you NOW see the games being played?

The hard truth is that we will have to back down sooner or later. But the big question is……Will it be $600 million down the road or $6 trillion?

Ain’t this bullshit just amazing?