House Of Representatives Approves Training Of Syrian Rebels

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/hous ... mic-state/

IMO, it's not much to get US forces out of the Middle East, but it's a start nonetheless.

...and history repeats itself. Those weapons will find themselves aimed at westerners and western interests shortly after the current problem goes away... and it becomes a new problem.

But then again, I'm sure plenty of lobby money went into senate and soon congressional anuses to get the vote this way. Fat cats in the military industrial complex going to make a lot of cash in the short future.

It didn't work before, it won't work this time either.
Funny how some of them go crazy about Americans defending themselves yet are willing to provide arms and training to terrorists.

After three years, and 130,000 dead, someone thought of training?

They are more than outgunned, they did not take prisoners.

Assads troops and supporters know they will be killed if IS or the FSA wins.

The FSA is to be trained by the Saudis. The same people who supplied chemical weapons.

Turkey and Jordan have bailed out. Both are where the US trained the rebels who became ISIS.

As IS occupies Mosul, Takrit, Falluja, bombing them will make things worse. This is Saddam's old power base.

Bagdad has the army trained and supplied by Iran.

Russia is not going to lose their Navel Base in Syria.

This is Defense Industries welfare. Bombs, drones, fuel.

The FSA, Al Nustra, stands no chance fighting both IS and Assad.

Assulting over open country, they will have great losses. They do not have the supply lines, and when caught in the open Assad kills them.

A battle between IS and FSA, would be a prime target for Assad. He does have rockets with conventional warheads that have been used to level several city blocks.

The Americans do pinpoint bombing, target weapons, checkpoints, and Assad levels half the town, the Americans get blamed. The IS reply happens in Europe.

Between the Russian counter sanctions and attacking IS, Europe is going to have a lot of problems.

This is a plan that has to do with midterm elections.

Let's train and arm yet another generation of moderate extremists in the Middle East. What could possibly go wrong?