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2015-05-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Pentagon confirms US has begun training Syrians to battle ISIS

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-08 01:50|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Training and arming one group of Sunnis, while bombing another group of Sunnis.

PC madness in an ethnic/religious war.

Posted by phil_b 2015-05-08 03:53|| 2015-05-08 03:53|| Front Page Top

#2 The 'cunning plan' must be to bomb more radical Sunnis into being less radical.

Words fail me at the utter stupidity of this.

Posted by phil_b 2015-05-08 03:58|| 2015-05-08 03:58|| Front Page Top

#3 This will end well.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-05-08 09:47|| 2015-05-08 09:47|| Front Page Top

#4 I guess they figure they'll make sure at least one set of bad guys controls Syria when the dust settles.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-05-08 14:35|| 2015-05-08 14:35|| Front Page Top

#5 This will end well.

Really...What could go wrong?

Posted by tu3031 2015-05-08 15:08|| 2015-05-08 15:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Neither side can win. They both have to destroy themselves in a Mexican standoff. That is the only way civilization can win.

Unfortunately, when you declare yourself puppet master, and the only knots you can tie on your strings is a slip knot, you are bound to create a clusterf**k.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-05-08 17:16|| 2015-05-08 17:16|| Front Page Top

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