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2014-11-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Report: Turkey, U.S. Agree Plan to Train 2,000 Moderate Syrian Rebels

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-11-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 some 2,000 fighters from the moderate Syrian opposition would be trained on Turkish soil

Their moderation to be certified by Turkey?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-11-16 04:40|| 2014-11-16 04:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Shakes head and walks away...

Posted by 3dc 2014-11-16 07:54|| 2014-11-16 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 We can shake our collective heads and walk away, but as tax payers, we'll still have to pay.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-16 07:55|| 2014-11-16 07:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Fools errand. We (our government) never learns.

Posted by Woodrow Stalin1308 2014-11-16 07:58|| 2014-11-16 07:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Isn't that an old trick of colonizers? Get the locals to kill each other off then move in.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-11-16 10:24|| 2014-11-16 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Here's an idea for the US: Arm a group that's proven to be pro-western and friendly to the US, has some combat experience, knows how to do PR (more important in that you might think in that region... strong horse), and is willing to fight, not just soak up aid money.

Arm the Kurds. With something more than small arms.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-11-16 10:54|| 2014-11-16 10:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Would this be the moderate Al-Nusra, who recently announced its re-engagement with ISJV?

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-11-16 10:58|| 2014-11-16 10:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Sure he'll why not, give a few dislike-a-nukes too. In for a penny in for a kiloton I sez.

Posted by Shipman 2014-11-16 14:27|| 2014-11-16 14:27|| Front Page Top

#9 What's the over-under on Erdogan proclaiming himself the Sultan or Caliph as ISIS gets blowed up?

I figure 6 months.

Posted by AlanC 2014-11-16 16:35|| 2014-11-16 16:35|| Front Page Top

#10 If the US State Dept were not asleep at the switch, they'd have realized Erdogan was a problem more than 10 years ago, and started contingencies and countering him.

Kinda like the whole mess in the Ukraine - going back to the Orange revolution and the rot that set in with the counterrevolution and Putin's meddling, that led to the overthrow of the oligarchs and Putin's invasion in all but name.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-11-16 17:25|| 2014-11-16 17:25|| Front Page Top

#11 They worry the corrupt Erdogan would then turn to Russia and work for the Bond super villian with NATO SECRETS.

Posted by newc 2014-11-16 22:12|| 2014-11-16 22:12|| Front Page Top

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