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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Woody Allen wrote this as a joke in the movie bananas. Now 45 years later..
“The American government is not taking any chances. Some of us are fighting for; some are fighting against.”
Being a friend of Democrats. That’s a dicey business...
The Obama/Hillary Arab Spring has been a disaster for humanity that continues today. It would be a joke if it was not so incompetent and tragic.
Not insanity. There’s an agenda and it involves pushing as many Muslim refugees into Europe and the United States as is humanly possible.
BINGO! especially young men of fighting age
That alone should make the Obama administration a laughing stock in the eyes of even the dumb Americans.
Clearly we need to put GPS homing chips in every jihadist we train, so we can take them out at any time it may become necessary.
OR, just stay the hell out of crapholes like Syria, etc.
*Facepalm*
Is this our new strategy? Arm both sides, let them kill each other and let allah sort it all out.
Obama and Hillary caused this mess.
For some reason I feel violated when I realize my tax monies are used for these nefarious reasons.
A strategic quagmire. Diabolically stupid.
Is it such a bad thing. The CIA gives faction arms and training. The Pentagon gives the other. They go at each other with intent to kill. I cook up more popcorn.
And every one of those barbarians that gets killed by another barbarian from a different tribe means so many less beheadings, rapes, and squishy things on sidewalks below a skyscraper.
However, this makes me shake my head:
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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