US sends hundreds of marines to Syria to support fight against Isis

[Mc Mike]

14. You deserve respect, Marengo. But have you seen this breakdown of the factions?

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/0607/Syria-conflict-5-warring-factions/The-Assad-regime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_groups_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War

Who do our troops shoot, who do they safely turn their backs on? Makes discerning allegiances during the Viet War look like a cakewalk.


Here's repug prez candidate McCain with some of the opposition leaders he backed:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/5/31/1212774/-John-McCain-Photographed-Palling-Around-With-Terrorists-In-Syria-VIDEO

3 bircher repugs, Bachmann, Gohmert, and King made a couple high profile foreign policy photo op trips that same year together, to Egypt and Libya, while doing everything possible to ignore and distract from their party's constant flip flops on regime change in Syria. I can't dredge up the info, but they were backing some Russian arms manufacturer, in their Sep or Dec trip that year, who was shipping weapons to Putin's proxy, Assad. The story was covered by Maddow, I've been looking around with no luck to get a link on it, though.

Boots on the ground is a bad idea, any where in the Mid East. Even if we had a competent CIC. And of course, we don't.