We have been training them all along, and giving them equipment like radios.
In 2013 the CIA began giving them weapons and training them on those weapons. Anti-tank weapons like Tow missiles.
Now congress has authorized the military to take over and arm/train more of them faster. But it is not clear whether we will give them anti-aircraft weapons.
The plans Obama announced last week were a joke, and if they serve any purpose, it will only be to hoodwink some voters before the mid-term elections.
Whatever might or might no have been done previously, we still have the question of whether Obama is as incompetent and clueless as he appears, or whether he actually means this nation ill. Practically everything he has done in the Middle East has been a disaster.