Defense Secretary Testifies to Senate: We have 60 Rebel Trainees - YouTube is laughable except for its tragic lack of hubris. The whole group of experts in the Defense Department and out who developed this tactic to counter home grown spontaneously organized rebels in Syria ought to be canned as were those who cooked up the Bay of Pigs disaster in Cuba. Parts of Syria have split into Sunni, Shia and Kurdish regions. ISIS is showing signs of becoming a functioning state, certainly better for Sunnis than Assad's Shia Alawites. As tools of American imperialism the sixty rebel trainees are not going to be welcomed anywhere in their country. The only difference to 1961 is that the upcoming massacre won't be on a beach.
Thanks to NPR's Morning Edition I just found the expert leading the charge. Its former undersecretary of defense for policy in the Obama administration, Michele Flournoy who coauthored the Washington Post editorial To Defeat the Islamic State, the U.S. Will Have to Go Big. She lists the first requirement in Iraq is a Political and Military unity. Well we know that isn't going to happen.
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