Robert Gates: US rebel training program 'nuts,'
h/t Gates of Vienna
A doomed US plan now on hold to train Syrian rebel fighters outside the country to fight the Islamic State was "nuts," former defense secretary Robert Gates said.
President Barack Obama's administration has suspended its $500 million train and equip effort in the latest embarrassment concerning a Syria strategy that has stumbled from one setback to the next.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-10-17 |