Obama Close To Authorizing Military Training Of Syrian Rebels
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Source: Hufffington Post/The World Post
President Barack Obama is close to authorizing a mission led by the U.S. military to train moderate Syrian rebels to fight the regime of Bashar al-Assad and al Qaeda-linked groups, a move that would expand Washington's role in the conflict, U.S. officials said.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/syria_n_5397353.html
word has it that he will make it official at West Point grad speech tomorrow
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Who else is there in Syria? Supporters of Saudi Arabia?
Why are we getting involved there? I know there are lots of victims. But are there any good guys fighting for the victims? i don't think so. Why should we be involved in yet another battle in which WE CANNOT WIN.
This is Afghanistan all over. No good guys are there. Forget it.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)I'm sure the situation in Syria will only improve once we start arming a third faction.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)WASHINGTON With reports indicating that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad are gaining ground in that countrys brutal civil war, moderate Syrian rebels have told a visiting journalist that the United States is arranging their training in Qatar.
In a documentary to be aired Tuesday night, the rebels describe their clandestine journey from the Syrian battlefield to meet with their American handlers in Turkey and then travel on to Qatar, where they say they received training in the use of sophisticated weapons and fighting techniques, including, one rebel said, how to finish off soldiers still alive after an ambush.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/syria-arming-the-rebels/syrian-rebels-describe-u-s-backed-training-in-qatar/#disqus_thread
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)This will just guarantee that more Syrians die for a lost cause.
OnlinePoker
(5,727 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,602 posts)If the teabaggers got foreign training and money? Would we not hear screams of outrage?
Wolf
valerief
(53,235 posts)That's how it works, right?
big_dog
(4,144 posts)if we are stuck there again
alsame
(7,784 posts)Wuss.
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albino65
(484 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)A weakened Bashar Assad is preferable for Syria and the whole region to a takeover by rebel forces increasingly ruled by Islamic extremists, Israeli officials reportedly said overnight Friday-Saturday.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-prefers-assad-to-islamist-rebels
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"We always wanted Bashar Assad to go, we always preferred the bad guys who weren't backed by Iran to the bad guys who were backed by Iran,"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/17/us-syria-crisis-israel-idUSBRE98G0DR20130917
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/denis-mcdonough-caricature-realism-9307
big_dog
(4,144 posts)and this is a move to tell them so
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Psephos
(8,032 posts)Doesn't say much for the Nobel committee.