Why?
Cause Syria President ain’t going anywhere now that Russian President Putin has his back….
The program wasn’t much of a success anyways…
This is one case where sunlight on a program was good in getting it cancelled…
The Russian’s are now gonna be stuck in the Middle East Religious War…
Already we have them dropping missiles bound for elsewhere dropping in on their buddies the Iranians…
President Obama is wise to sit this out for now…..
In the end this Dog believes that no matter what ?
We have the separation of Syria and Iraq into separate religious based states…..
Syria and Iraq as Shia based ones….
The Islamic State as a Sunni one….
And the Kurds getting their own….
It was NEVER gonna be anything different in the end….
We can only define the countries it might have….
The Obama administration has ended the Pentagon’s $500 million program to train and equip Syrian rebels, administration officials said on Friday, in an acknowledgment that the beleaguered program had failed to produce any kind of ground combat forces capable of taking on the Islamic State in Syria.
Pentagon officials were expected to officially announce the end of the program on Friday, as Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter leaves London after meetings with his British counterpart, Michael Fallon, about the continuing wars in Syria and Iraq.
“I wasn’t happy with the early efforts” of the program, Mr. Carter said during a news conference with Mr. Fallon. “So we have devised a number of different approaches.” Mr. Carter added, “I think you’ll be hearing from President Obama very shortly” on the program.
A senior Defense Department official, who was not authorized to speak publicly and who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that there would no longer be any more recruiting of so-called moderate Syrian rebels to go through training programs in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates. Instead, a much smaller training center would be set up in Turkey, where a small group of “enablers” — mostly leaders of opposition groups — would be taught operational maneuvers like how to call in airstrikes….
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