A solid year after Congress authorized $500 million for the training and creation of a brand new pro-US Syrian rebel force, the first class of trainees was deployed into Syria. What was initially expected to be tens of thousands of fighters ended up being 54, and they were quickly routed by al-Qaeda.
It’s just now that the Pentagon is finally admitting to there being “flaws” in their plan, and they are now talking about “tweaks” so that their future efforts are a little less disastrous than what they’ve accomplished so far.
The admission itself is a leap forward for the Pentagon, which has been insisting the 54 troops were going to do just fine, despite there only being 54 of them. Despite this, however, they are offering no indication of what changes they might make, suggesting that finally noticing there are problems with their plan didn’t bring them much closer to “fixing” it.
Officials say there are two more classes of rebels, about 200 more of them, being trained right now, meaning they could have a four-fold increase in the number of fighters on the ground in Syria, though they will still be by far the smallest independent faction inside Syria.
Yeah, the Pentagon will fix Syria alright…
After all the trauma of recent weeks brought on by Syrian refuges throughout Europe it is absolutely insane that U.S. policy would support further escalation of the Syrian civil war.
I didn't know that spare parts are sold separately. But then again, these mercenaries are sold as they come without guarantees.
The civilians need to tell the Governments long term suit and ties to put the money up and turn the killing of mano y mano combat over to US Mercenary Contractors.
We could go back to Brits head pay as in Kenya or that grand tradition of US pay per scalp.
ISIS is a group of cowardly pu**y,s when it comes to battlefield mayhem and torture.
Hell almost all the Butchers og Mexico and nations below them in Americas were trained by amricans.
We love indian country, the areas where you kill anything, and I do mean anything, that fn moves if out of a whore house.
Give the planes tanks into the old Blackwater style contractors who kill for thr thrill , and let US drone and intel play their videop games while the professionals kill any one that gets in their way.
There are aleays a lot of damn the religion hive me the money, who will realy sweat and testostrronr up to become excellent killers; so yes hire crrtain bloody bast…s of Syrians and Kurds who can be integrated
into our contractor forces.
Obsma and the DC sadist can still watch killings on the popcorn candybars and pop room
I wonder how much this supposed "fix" is going to ultimately cost the American taxpayer? At this point, what's another trillion dollars pissed down a rathole to these morons?
Same old routine – trying to hire Muslims to kill other Muslims for the convenience of Zionist Israel. They are not that stupid; maybe we are.
Yep, we've only go to spend tens of billions more taxpayer dollars and soon we'll have them as effective as the Iraqi Army. And if we go with the gold-plated training and spend a hundred billion dollars, we can make them as effective as the South Vietnamese Army.
Another fine example of, "You can buy better, but you can't pay more".
How much does it really cost to send some ISIS fighter in a Toyota to the promised land? Fancy laser bomb, expensive aircraft, way more expensive aircraft carrier, escorts for the aircraft carrier, extraction helicopters, fuel, wear and tear…..Adds up pretty quick.
The US military has no equal when it comes to burning through money.