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In reply to the discussion: Officials: Pentagon Weighing Whether To Protect US-Trained Syrian Rebels If Attacked By Russia [View all]PSPS
(13,647 posts)4. "US-Trained Syrian Rebels" are really Islamist An-Nusra Front charlatans.
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Officials: Pentagon Weighing Whether To Protect US-Trained Syrian Rebels If Attacked By Russia [View all]
Purveyor
Oct 2015
OP
To be fair, they possibly were not so much switching sides as staying alive.
TwilightGardener
Oct 2015
#17
Ash: we have no more obligation to protect them than to the Bay of Pigs Cubans.
leveymg
Oct 2015
#26
We have a government that keeps secret all the bad news and publishes broadly all the good news.
JDPriestly
Oct 2015
#27
Can you imagine starting WWIII over "4 or 5 guys" who delivered our new trucks and weapons to JaN?
GreatGazoo
Oct 2015
#20
What a fucking mess. No. We should not, and I thought there were only 4 or so there.
morningfog
Oct 2015
#5
$500 million was allocated, not spent. I think it was $48 million as of August.
TwilightGardener
Oct 2015
#35
I'm relieved to read that the actual amount spent was 'ONLY' $48 MILLION as of August.
JDPriestly
Oct 2015
#36
This is Umerika stupid is what we do, especially if the MIC can make a few billions
Vincardog
Oct 2015
#13
Kinda depends what US weapons they have and what other armaments they were given
benld74
Oct 2015
#11
It's my understanding that a good portion of them went over to ISIS or other such groups
PersonNumber503602
Oct 2015
#37
That may be one of the dumbest ideas in the long history of dumb ideas in Syria.
NuclearDem
Oct 2015
#16
No, there were about 120-130 or so released to fight into Syria since July.
TwilightGardener
Oct 2015
#34