Every attempt by the US to insinuate itself into Syria’s ongoing civil war has failed, and every ally they’ve named has ended up collapsing to the point of irrelevance in the face of stronger factions like ISIS.
Still, the Pentagon seems to figure the next time’s the charm, and is seeking $500 million in additional funding for rebel training as part of their next massive budget from Congress, aiming to create a force of 2,300 “moderate” rebels.
The Pentagon plan envisions them fighting not only the ongoing war with the Assad government, which is difficult enough, but also all of the al-Qaeda and ISIS-linked factions therein, which at this point have at least as much territory.
It isn’t even clear what “moderate” means at this point, beyond them being willing to take US money and equipment, and while the Free Syrian Army (FSA) has long been the “go-to” rebel faction for the US, their complete lack of success has the US looking for other Islamist blocs, at least the ones not directly affiliated with al-Qaeda.
The first "moderates" turn out to be what ISIS is, the second "moderate" rebel is Adolph Hitler himself dressed as ISIS leader Prince of darkness, Baghdai himself, the only thing differs them will be the color of their uniform, on in black one in brown.
“A fool and his money will end up with ISIS.”
The US is using billions for a regime change action, from which the country itself seems to have nothing to gain. Unless returning jihadists conducting terror attacks in the US and Europe are seen as such.
It seems to me that isis is already strong enough. Why does isis need more US aid? What the heck kind of soup are we cooking here. An invasion force against Saudi.? Or do we want to simply want fortify the Islamic state to prevent an Iranian pipeline? Once again we can only guess at the agenda. None of the money we have spent In the Middle East has made any sense from a tax payer point of view for the last 10 years.
Are you kidding? Look at what all that money is doing to the Palestinians, and the dough continues to roll in.
Oh my god. Put a $ock in it you greedy murderers. The U$ Ca$h cow is already half mummified. The nipple$ fell off years ago. We need to stop making the middle east more unstable. The war machine is laughing at taxpayers. The war machine wants perpetual war. They create enemies. It's all they know. They view "peace" as an anomaly, and a weakness to be mocked, and scorned.
Why don't we just fast forward and have our advisors helping the Syrian "moderates" attack our advisors defending what is left of Iraq