American Greatness: When the Washington Post puts five reporters on a story, it must be important, right? Over the course of the last two days, the Post reported on President Trump’s decision to officially kill “an ineffective and largely defunct” covert CIA program to recruit, train and arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria.
We learned about this program three years ago, when it emerged that while the CIA had appropriated around $500 million for this effort, the agency had been able to find only about 60 Syrian fighters deemed “moderate” enough to train and arm. Of these 60, the CIA was able to account for only five at the end of the effort, the rest having melded into various murderous militias—including ISIS—slaughtering each other in Syria. That discovery marked the effective end of the failed program.
Yet the rebels are not happy with Trump’s decision, according to the Post. “We definitely feel betrayed… It feels like we are being abandoned,” said General Tlass al-Salameh of Osoud al-Sharqiya of the Free Syrian Army, channeling his inner James Comey.
The Post is sympathetic. It struggled to find an explanation for the decision. Many might have thought that you needn’t look far to account for why we’ve stopped pouring money down a rat hole. But there’s something else going on, says the Post. Something that, for the Post, explains everything that happens in Trump’s America: Russia. more
Yup, and they killed an ambassador doing it. The benghazi bitch needs to be in jail.
Seems as if the General is nothing more than a whining weenie 😢! Shut up and fight, dumb f*ck!!!
Fuck Syria. We need to get the hell out of there and stop arming McStains Al-Qaeda buddies. There’s only one nation in that region that we should be bombing. Take out Tehran and it’s all over.
I wonder how many miles of Southern Wall we could have built with that money?
Funny how we never have money for things we need, but PLENTY of money for crap Washington wants.
Trump shut down McCain’s private little army and his self serving wars.