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August 13, 2017 at 2:26 pm
It isn't as if we didn't try..... and step on our own dicks in the process.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/20...ogram.html


Quote:The Pentagon has abandoned its failed $500 million program to train "moderate" Syrian rebels in favor of ramping up support for established and proven forces — including Kurdish fighters — a decision that comes on the heels of the White House's admission that building a force from scratch to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was "a more difficult endeavor than we assumed."

No shit, Sherlock.
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August 13, 2017 at 2:36 pm
That's "trying" in the same sense as my daughter "tries" not to bicker with her siblings.
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RE: Mosul Liberated
August 13, 2017 at 3:03 pm
LOL.  Yeah.

I remember John McCain yammering on about creating this great "moderate" army.  I don't think he understands that in that part of the world a "moderate" is someone who shoots a prisoner of war in the back of the head while a radical is one who nails them to a cross.

The Middle East looks the way it does because of centuries of ethnic cleansing.  We are not going to change that by sprinkling Democracy Dust around.

As far as the Sunni and Shi'a go....

Quote:A plague o' both your houses!

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