Posted on 07/19/2017 1:41:47 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
President Trump cancelled the CIA’s secret program to arm and train Syrian rebels fighting the regime of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad — a move critics called a gift to Russia, a new report said Wednesday.
“This is a momentous decision. Putin won in Syria,” a US official who supported the program told The Washington Post.
The program to arm moderate Syrian rebels began under the Obama administration in 2013 and was continued under Trump until now.
Officials told the paper that phasing out the covert program was a way to improve relations with Russia and President Vladimir Putin, who strongly opposed the effort.
The officials said the president made the call after an Oval Office sitdown with CIA Director Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster ahead of Trump’s meeting with Putin at the G20 in Germany on July 7.
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McCain will bleed out of his you-know-what when he gets the news’
No biopsy results reported yet,wonder why.
BFFFF?
““gift to Russia”, well hell, that’s a felony right there /s”
That is funny. Soon to be the lead on CNN.
I hope this is true.
Oh, and the pundits in the msm can go and reproduce asexually.
5.56mm
Will this upset McCain and Graham? I get so confused with all the bad guy factions in Syria.
[ Neo-con heads will collectively explode over this. ]
I wonder if he intentionally waited for McCain to go under the knife before doing this....
And when was this guy a LTC, thirty years ago?
He looks old enough for the old folk's home.
I’m amazed at the timing of Senator McCain’s surgery in AZ. He got to prevent any Senate health care plan from passing without even having to vote against it.
This is very good news.
The persons responsible for continuing this program while cognizant that materiel was delivered to IS/AQ must be prosecuted. This includes but is not limited to: Obama, Clinton, McCain, Pelosi, McConnell, Feinstein, Boehner, Reid, and Patraeus.
What they really need is a Specialist/6. They’re rare.
Good. I’ve opposed that program since Obama started it; all the viable replacements for Assad would be far worse. It’s stupid and not our place to overthrow him when that would just make the situation worse.
This program has trained more Al Qaeda and ISIS fighters than anyone else.
The hypocrisy of American politicians complaining about “Russian interference” in the U.S. election last year ... while the U.S. government was pushing an effort to topple the government of a sovereign nation like Syria ... was absolutely repulsive.
McCain, Graham and Rubio are deeply saddened.
Good. All Muslims hate the US, so why do we help any of them?
Peters is nuts.
Be prepared for a false flag operation by those who oppose this move. Will there be a chemical weapons attack, for which the CIA has incontrovertible evidence that it was planned by Assad (and Putin knew about it)?
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