Ramadi

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Ah.... so much for arming the moderates, McCain!

It wasn't so long ago that Ayotte and McCain were screaming the loudest to arm "moderate" rebels.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34278233

Syria crisis: 'Only four or five' US-trained Syrian rebels are still fighting

A US scheme to train Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State (IS) militants has been branded a total failure after a US general admitted only four or five were still fighting.
Congress approved $500m (£323m) to train and equip around 5,000 rebels as a key plank of US strategy against IS.
But the first 54 graduates were routed by an al-Qaeda affiliate, Gen Lloyd Austin told lawmakers.

This is what Obama gets for listening to republicunts and their hare-brained schemes to see the world as they want it, not like it is.

Meanwhile...speaking of Ramadi...

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/milit.../71641602/

No end in sight for Iraq fight against ISIS in Ramadi

Nearly four months after the fall of Ramadi, the American-backed effort by the Iraqi army to retake the provincial capital from Islamic State militants is moving slowly and fueling concerns that the Iraqis are not up to the task.
"I don't think there is any stomach to retake Ramadi right now and suffer the kind of causalities that such a battle would incur," said retired Army Col. Peter Mansoor, who served in Iraq in 2007 and 2008 as executive officer to retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, who led the war effort at that time. Mansoor now teaches military history at Ohio State University.
Others say the Iraqi army suffers from a debilitating lack of manpower and has never restored its force structure after the mass desertions in 2014 following the Islamic State's initial advance into Iraq.

Infuckingcredible.