Citing Failures, Pentagon Scraps Syrian Rebel Training Program

[samspade]

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.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2015/10/09/pentagon-to-end-syrian-rebel-training-program-n2063513

Now this administration will just give weapons directly to ISIS without the pretext of sending fighters who immediately join the terorists and hand over their weapons.

[DumbAss Tanker]

It's been a total failure, which has only added to the death toll in Syria to no effect, and based on a gross misread of the situation combined with no overarching strategy (At least, none that actually makes any sense or could actually work) to justify it.  'Way past time to pull the plug.

[thundley4]

Why train any Syrian rebels. Putin will just kill them anyway.  Obama had his chance to drive Assad from power. He did nothing in Syria, so Putin decided it time to end the mess and keep Assad in power.

[samspade]

Isn't it amazing how a bunch of Toyota trucks we gave to our "muslim allies" ended up with ISIS?

[txradioguy]

So v.2 of "Training the people who will kill us" involves us air dropping 50 tons of munitions to the people the Russians are trying to blow up.