"The Obama administration announced the training program last year, as a way to create a ground force to take on ISIS without having to deploy US forces.
The Pentagon was granted $500 million for the program in 2015, and has requested $600 million for 2016. The administration's goal is to train 15,000 rebels in three years."
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Shit, I wish that someone would forget that they gave me 500 mill. If the government is giving out that kind of loot, maybe I could get a loan for 250,000 and open a Laundromat.
Of coarse this is seen as a success by Obama supporters because 4 or 5 are left.
This is the type of Commander in Chief we have and people worry about Trump
All the military commanders just had to testify before the house sub committee on the catastrophic failure and how next year Obama plans to drop another 600 million
Thats $1.1 Billion on a failed project!!
How about spending that money on 30 more VA hospitals.
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Yeah this was a disaster. The reason is that we want to train and equip "moderate" rebels, but our definition of moderate is so stringent that practically no one fighting in Syria qualifies, and those that do aren't generally the best fighters.
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So what are they going to do, put wheelchair warriors out on the front lines? Just kidding. But yeah, it's crazy. So much could have been done with those funds in terms of improving our state of affairs. All Presidents make mistakes, but the last few that Obama has made seem like he's trying to sabotage the US. We're talking about a crap load of money that seems to have all but slipped through the cracks.
I said that it seems like he has sabotaged the US, but I have a suspicious mind. The Iran deal seems suspect to me as well, but even to me those thoughts feel more like a conspiracy theory than actual fact.
Like every other intervention policy in the last 14 years in the middle east it's an abject failure. Not surprising really. The US and other western allies have no clue who to support or how to go about intervening successfully in Syria and Iraq and yet get all pissy when Russia actually pick a side and start to act or when Iran (who have been the most effective at tackling ISIS on the basis of the little resources they've employed so far) do the same.
Instead the US do a deal with Turkey to use their airbases to bomb ISIS while Turkey bomb people fighting against ISIS (the Kurds) from the same airbases.
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