Posted on 08/30/2016 7:47:31 PM PDT by Lorianne
Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter five-year-old civil war.
The fighting has intensified over the last two months, as CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other while maneuvering through contested territory on the northern outskirts of Aleppo, U.S. officials and rebel leaders have confirmed.
In mid-February, a CIA-armed militia called Fursan al Haq, or Knights of Righteousness, was run out of the town of Marea, about 20 miles north of Aleppo, by Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces moving in from Kurdish-controlled areas to the east.
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obama Mickey Mouse.
Another Obama cluster foxtrot.
Obama’s War makes F-Troop look like Guadalcanal Diaries...
Muslim on muslim war? Why WOULDN’T we be arming both sides? (Ahem...Iran/Iraq war, anybody?)
“insanity” - a.k.a. foreign policy, overt and covert.
The CIA and Pentagon are enemies of the once Free Republic.
They have black budgets and can’t account for trillions of dollars. They kill hundreds of thousands in the name of America.
Looking forward to hearing their screams from Hell.
THAT HEADLINE tells me Democrats are running the country. It’s just that simple. Nothing complex about the situation at all. Democrats are fools, and fools are running the country.
analagous to our nation divided at odds with itself over issues supposedly beyond anyone’s control.. and exacerbated by misguided efforts by its own leadership.
“Why WOULDNT we be arming both sides?”
Because both sides behead Christians, rape women and throw fags from the top of buildings?
Our country has a sickness. What we are doing in Syria is an atrocity, an ignorance, and a love of war gone wild.
“Knights of Righteousness”
As I walk through this world,
I find nothing can stop the Dukes of Earl
This country has gone utterly insane. I don’t recognize anything about this country anymore.
Like that would all go away without US backing. Jihadis killing other Jihadis is a net gain.
Remember this from 2007?
But then the Saudis started to donate millions to the Clinton foundation..
Yet another Obama/Hilliary/Kerry success
“Jihadis killing other Jihadis is a net gain”
No it’s not. It’s a Darwinian death match. The strong will survive and the weak will be slaughtered. Then the strong will consolidate and attack the West.
Millions of Syrian refugees are flowing into Europe and the US as a result of this war.
When the government starts relocating battle hardened refugees in your neighborhood you might have a change of heart.
total madness
Federal employees caused a cluster?
Democrat Federal employees?
Shocking!
Looking sharp America!
That can’t be true.
Only Peter Sellers could write that.
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