"You see, Stanley, it's all very simple. We don't like Assad, so we help the good guys in Syria who are against Assad, but we don't help the bad guys in Syria who are against Assad. Second, we help the good guys in Iraq who are being threatened by the bad guys in Syria who crossed over into Iraq. Third, in Syria we are on the opposite side from the Iranians because they are helping Assad , but we are on the same side as the Iranians in Iraq because they are helping our guys in the Iraqi government. To sum up, we are supporting the rebels in Syria but fighting the rebels in Iraq even though they came from Syria. Just remember if it gets confusing, the key word is vetted."
This has got to be the most convoluted foreign policy I have ever seen. Remember those Syrian rebels who are carrying out all those atrocities? Remember how they morphed into the ISIS guys who are taking over Iraq? It was bad enough that we are on the side of the Iraqi conflict as Iran, but now we still want to spend $500 million to train and equip the rebels in Syria, but we may bomb them if they cross into Iraq.
Do I have this correct?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/26/obama-seeks-500m-to-train-equip-syrian-rebels/
I guess I overlooked the key word here (vetted). You see we will only spend the $500 million on those rebels in Syria who are vetted and we can trust.
This sounds like all those times we trained the "new breed" of federal cops in Mexico. I participated in 3 of those training seminars myself in the 1990s, twice at the National Police Academy in Mexico City and once in Washington. They were vetted; background checks, polygraphs, you name it. The results were still the same.
If only the US could train the whole world.
Forgive my cynicism, but I wouldn't trust the most competent of administrations to get this one right let alone this bunch in Washington. You talk about threading the needle. We are going to support a select bunch of rebels in Syria, who are supposed to be good guys, but if they show up in Iraq they are the bad guys.
Look for that equipment, whatever it is, to show up in Iraq.
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Yeah, and we supported Stalin against Hitler too.
Sorry to keep bringing up the history, but we spent hundreds of millions to train the Palestinian Authority Security Forces as well. It bought us nothing and created a threat to our ally, Israel.
Our Foreign Policy has been incompressible for years. Obama watches events and developments and reduces our capacity to do anything even if we wanted to or even if our national interests were at stake. In the meantime, actors like Putin and ISIS mobilize, move, and gain territory and influenence.
What makes anyone confident we can vet anybody? Especially those with several pseudonyms, and affiliations, not to mention being accomplished liars.
This is what you get when you elect a left wing Democratis ideologue as well as a rank amateur.
Make that "our Foreign policy has been incomprehensible for years" Sorry...damn spell spell checker!
The PA Security forces are Israel's best friend.
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