As the Pentagon gets ready to “vet” the potential Syrian rebels they hope to train for the new pro-US rebel faction they intend to create to fight ISIS, it’s looking pretty easy. They already know most of these guys, because they already trained them.
“We’re not starting from scratch,” one official noted, adding re-vetting people they already know should take no more than a single day, and many of these worked through the CIA programs from previous years.
The unspoken downside to this is that these same rebels were trained to do the exact same thing they’re being trained for this time, and it didn’t work before.
The Pentagon estimates they can get 5,400 rebels ready to go in a year, and that they’ll need around 15,000 to seriously contest ISIS territory. Yet so far these rebels have been extremely unsuccessful in fighting ISIS and pretty much everyone else they’ve gone against, so the estimates seem extremely optimistic.
"…these same rebels were trained to do the exact same thing they’re being trained for this time, and it didn’t work before."
But that was the plan. The US doesn't care if they win – just keep the war going.
The inescapable lesson of history is that no empire can survive the waste of treasure or the debasement of its currency in foreign wars without end.
Now the US can openly train it's terrorist proxy army, call them "moderate" and the corporate media dispenses this with a straight face. War, war, war all the time meddling, war 4 profit…no search for a peaceful solution because perpetual war for perpetual peace is too much of a goldmine to pass up.
I guess they wanted us to eventually get outrage fatigue…