Posted on 02/20/2016 7:09:19 PM PST by marvel5
The administration’s Syria policy has been a joke for years, and it’s getting even worse:
Officials with Syrian rebel battalions that receive covert backing from one arm of the U.S. government told BuzzFeed News that they recently began fighting rival rebels supported by another arm of the U.S. government.
In this case, a Syrian rebel group that the CIA has been arming in collusion with other governments came under attack from the Kurdish YPG that the Pentagon has armed to fight ISIS. U.S. support for one group is now directly undermining its effort to support another, and that’s happening because the U.S. is pursuing two separate and often contradictory goals in Syria at the same time. Remember this the next time you hear a Syria hawk on the campaign trail demand that the U.S. sink even deeper into the morass of Syria’s civil war.
The U.S. is lending support to anti-regime rebels to maintain the fiction of backing a “moderate†opposition, and it is backing the YPG as part of the war against ISIS, which is the administration’s real priority. Given the fractious nature of anti-regime forces and the multi-sided nature of the civil war, it was probably inevitable that different U.S.-backed groups would end up fighting each other. Arming these groups doesn’t provide Washington with any influence or control over how they use the weapons the U.S. provides, and each one has its own agenda and priorities that aren’t going to fit in with the administration’s ramshackle Syria policy.
Actually, the Mideast has always been inconsistent.
No sense in throwing good money after bad.
Ayatollah Obama is supplying American arms to every muslim combatant group in Syria.
Isn’t this just what happened in Benghazi ?
Obama and DOD were going to give special weapons to one side, and HIllary and her own CIA under the Dept of State were going to sell it to the other side.
Its devolved into a Woody Allen movie...
One of the major things that we can not seem to wrap our minds around is how klanish and tribal Middle East muslim society is. They are fighting fueds that started 1,300 years ago. The only way they can be forced to coexist is by the rule of a ruthless iron fist. And we have removed those fists.
One of the major things that we can not seem to wrap our minds around is how klanish and tribal Middle East muslim society is. They are fighting fueds that started 1,300 years ago. The only way they can be forced to coexist is by the rule of a ruthless iron fist. And we have removed those fists.
Anytime Muslims are killing each other step out of the way.
So unexpected, right?! I mean, with Suzanne Powers and Suzie Rice, along with VJ and barry, we can always expect a complete and utter sickening cluster....
Putin claims he is only dropping extreme bombs on extreme terrorists, and is dropping moderate bombs on the moderate terrorists....
AFP is FUBAR. Barry, Kerry, Biden and Hillaryous are the culprits.
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