...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
to combat the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an expected expansion of a program that first launched in Jordan weeks ago, a US official told Rooters on May 28.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not offer details on the size of the first group of recruits undergoing training in Turkey or the specific start date.
The Pentagon declined to comment.
President Barack Obama
The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person...
's administration says the program aims only to target ISIL forces, not troops loyal to Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
. But critics, including in the US Congress, say that theoretical limitation is unlikely to withstand the realities of Syria's messy civil war.
The war in Syria has killed more than 220,000 people and left a third of the population homeless.
The United States hopes the long-awaited program will train just over 5,000 Syrian fighters a year, giving the US military partners on the ground to combat Islamic State.
So far, the US role in Syria has been largely limited to air strikes, although American special operations forces killed a senior ISIL leader in a raid there this month.
All of the US military training of Syrian opposition fighters is taking place outside of the country. Beyond Jordan and Turkey, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
have also offered to host training sites.
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