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26. Ash: we have no more obligation to protect them than to the Bay of Pigs Cubans.

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Fri Oct 2, 2015, 09:01 PM

Oct 2015

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Wake up, Carter. It isn't 1961.

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Officials: Pentagon Weighing Whether To Protect US-Trained Syrian Rebels If Attacked By Russia [View all] Purveyor Oct 2015 OP

That's a no win situation if ever there was one. MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #1

We have to leave them high and dry, christx30 Oct 2015 #12

To be fair, they possibly were not so much switching sides as staying alive. TwilightGardener Oct 2015 #17

Either way, our policy in Syria is one big fat fail. JDPriestly Oct 2015 #21

"obviously failing so badly" how would you know? pasto76 Oct 2015 #23

Ash: we have no more obligation to protect them than to the Bay of Pigs Cubans. leveymg Oct 2015 #26

Syria: Obama's Bay of Pigs bemildred Oct 2015 #32

We have a government that keeps secret all the bad news and publishes broadly all the good news. JDPriestly Oct 2015 #27

The mission was to spend billions of U.S. tax dollars daleo Oct 2015 #38

You mean the ISIS-allied Syrian rebels? Crowman1979 Oct 2015 #2

Can you imagine starting WWIII over "4 or 5 guys" who delivered our new trucks and weapons to JaN? GreatGazoo Oct 2015 #20

WTF is a moderate Al-Qaeda member anyway? Jesus Malverde Oct 2015 #29

NO leftynyc Oct 2015 #3

+ a million. HooptieWagon Oct 2015 #28

"US-Trained Syrian Rebels" are really Islamist An-Nusra Front charlatans. PSPS Oct 2015 #4

What a fucking mess. No. We should not, and I thought there were only 4 or so there. morningfog Oct 2015 #5

I read $500 million dollars wasted on them in Syria. JDPriestly Oct 2015 #22

$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

Oh, good thing they're thinking through this NOW. TwilightGardener Oct 2015 #6

"...using force in response to a Russian attack..." Adsos Letter Oct 2015 #7

Get them out now. nt bemildred Oct 2015 #8

What? All 9 of them? Issue them Green cards and be done with it Demeter Oct 2015 #9

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #10

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

Russia - Syria - bombing - asiliveandbreathe Oct 2015 #14

They are not US forces Geronimoe Oct 2015 #15

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

Let the people in the middle east solve their own problems. Elmer S. E. Dump Oct 2015 #18

Except the U.S. didn't. former9thward Oct 2015 #39

I know all that smarty-pants Elmer S. E. Dump Oct 2015 #40

If Carly was President Geronimoe Oct 2015 #19

War morons at their moronic thinking again. Dont call me Shirley Oct 2015 #24

This is bs crazy. salib Oct 2015 #25

I saw a post that claimed the first targets were CIA safe houses. Jesus Malverde Oct 2015 #30

Wait, I thought they already were. JackRiddler Oct 2015 #31

Comedy gold. There were five of them. And they've now been carjacked. Psephos Oct 2015 #33

No, there were about 120-130 or so released to fight into Syria since July. TwilightGardener Oct 2015 #34