The Pentagon has a new idea for fighting the “bad guys” in Syria…..not as moronic as the “moderate” rebels……nope it is far more idiotic than that…..
After their last attempt to recruit and train a whole new rebel faction for Syria ended in disaster, the Pentagon is angling to try again. US officials are bursting with confidence, saying they have more Arabs volunteering than they know what to do with.
Described as an “eclectic” group, the new recruits seem even less suited to the role than the last ones. One US military adviser described them as “raw, literally civilians coming off the streets,” which plays well to the US narrative of locals rising up to resist ISIS.
But the US training missions have struggled enough with training proper militaries and rebels with considerable existing experience. Carving a whole new fighting force out of untrained civilians is the very thing President Obama mocked as “fantasy.”
(antiwar.com)
They could hardly do worse than the last attempt, however, with the Pentagon’s previous training attempts not only ending with the “first class” of recruits wiped out in a matter of days, but with the second class defecting to al-Qaeda almost immediately with a large amount of US equipment.
The Pentagon is already trying to same scheme again so soon after such an embarrassment reflects the lack of realistic ideas among US officials on how to win the ongoing war, and continued pressure to “do something,” even if it clearly won’t work.
What was it that Einstein had to say about doing the same things over and over?
Why don’t they leave it to the military? Politicians never were good at warfare. Yes, chuq, they are morons.
Cannot argue with that….
I was going to comment, but, during the planning phase, I realized the futility, as the entire Syrian scenario is such a clusterfuck of opposing forces all flailing about with no real idea of what they’re even trying to fight for, much less against. And, if my own informal research is accurate, just about every clandestine spy organization of every major country is there, acting as ‘controls’ for their own particular factions.
At that point is where I had to burst into laughter, because at least two, maybe three countries, all have various factions fighting, on opposite sides, all using weapons supplied by the other side, or perhaps, both sides…. It gives new meaning to the term clusterfuck, don’t you think?
Well, I do….
gigoid, the dubious
clusterfuck is the perfect definition….chuq
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No problem….I see the sign when I go to your site….I do not….
I just got it back by redoing all my cookies and stuff thanks to the WordPress Happiness Engineers. Just got it back before you posted your comment. But thanks for the help. I appreciate it.
Late start so IO guess I will be a dollar short all day….LOL
And tomorrow you will be dollars ahead.
Not in this economy…LOL
This economy has been nothing but good for me for the last 77 years.
Then you my friend are a fortunate man…..sadly not everyone has been so fortunate…
I am more than fortunate! I am blessed!
seems Syria will keep getting messier with diff. agencies of the US meddling away not knowing what the other is doing.
I have been writing and researching….I may have a plan I will purpose as soon as it is completed….
glad to hear that, waiting to read more on your plan friend.
I will keep you in the loop
tks