While the US has not yet begun training its would-be pro-US rebel force for Syria yet, and indeed hasn’t even decided if they’re going to support them once they’re done, the Pentagon today affirmed that the first 400 recruits have been selected.
The recruits, part of some 1,800 identified potential candidates for rebellion, are still being vetted, and after background checks, Pentagon officials say they could be ready to send to Syria as early as fall.
What happens then is anyone’s guess. The Pentagon has talked up this program as training and arming some 15,000 rebel troops over the next few years, but hasn’t identified much more than 10% of that as a pool to draw from.
Sending 400 “rebels” back to Syria with a few months training and a bunch of pricey US-made weaponry seems a recipe for a quick round of losses, 400 slain rebels, and ISIS collecting another 400 rebels worth of US weaponry to add to their growing collection.
How do you check these people backgrounds! unless they are listed with NSA, CIA and 24 more agencies where USG cooperating with. The Turkish and European, Governments! After all, just two weeks ago it was announced that USG and Erdogan regime are about to create new moderate rebellion against syrian people. So these new rebellious must be stationed in Turkey, or other countries in Europe where they have been background checked by NSA, CIA, the turkish and even the Swedish SAPO.
Who will they be rebelling against? Asad or ISIS?
That should do the trick.
These so-called rebels will be paid for and loyal to the US. They are essentially the US version of the French Foreign Legion. Why would anyone rebel against Assad but get their ass killed fighting ISIS? Obviously, a US mercenary force. When the time comes, they will be lead by US officers and be provided command and control, included airpower to take on Assad- like the French Foreign Legion did in Libya when they posed as Bedouin tribesmen but rushed across Libya with NATO airpower to destroy Gadaffi.
Fan the flames of war, pour more fuel on an already incendiary crisis.
What happened to the old methods of deploying UN peacekeeping forces?
I still want to know why we are trying to overthrow Assad, outside of the fact that he's a Muslim and socialist.
Jason…sarcasm? You're beginning to sound like some of the commenters.
Howard Zinn once said there's no such thing as "unbiased" history or reporting, that the best we can hope for is for the historian or reporter to clearly disclose his biases. I applaud Jason for disclosing what he thinks of the intelligence of the US military. However, I don't think any of this has anything to do with stupidity. The arms that will eventually end up in ISIS hands will be paid for by the USG, to the profit of the manufacturers, and the contractors or others who train these kids will be well compensated as well. Those are the institutional imperatives of this mission, and if 90% of these foolish children are dead within a month of deployment, it doesn't matter.
US policies are a raging success.
Gonna get interesting when US can no longer stop outside countries from doing this to itself. People will have so many examples to draw from that show the US is okay with training and unleashing terrorist armies on targets of choice. And then the US excuse of “we can but you can’t” won’t be enforceable.
Must fight Ass-Add first
So they are sending an undercover army of 400 people?
rom the outset in March 2011, the US and its allies have supported the formation of death squads and the incursion of terrorist brigades in a carefully planned undertaking.
The recruitment and training of terror brigades in both Iraq and Syria was modeled on the “Salvador Option”, a “terrorist model” of mass killings by US sponsored death squads in Central America. It was first applied in El Salvador, in the heyday of resistance against the military dictatorship, resulting in an estimated 75,000 deaths.
The formation of death squads in Syria builds upon the history and experience of US sponsored terror brigades in Iraq, under the Pentagon’s “counterinsurgency” program. read in full: http://www.globalresearch.ca/terrorism-with-a-hum…
rom the outset in March 2011, the US and its allies have supported the formation of death squads and the incursion of terrorist brigades in a carefully planned undertaking.
ANOTHER Syrian rebel contingent ??? Look at the ones Hillary and her State Dept ("dual citizenship" types, if one looks, that represents Wall Street and foreign interests) created using weapons from Libya. They now call them "ISIS". Wall Street loves 'em. More tribal profits.