CIA fighting a half-assed proxy war
The Washington Post reports that the CIA is currently training a handful of “moderate” Syrian rebels, whatever “moderate” means in that theater of war. Their goal is to fight the war to a stalemate. Von Clauswitz and Sun Tzu are spinning in their graves.
The CIA’s mission, officials said, has been defined by the White House’s desire to seek a political settlement, a scenario that relies on an eventual stalemate among the warring factions rather than a clear victor. As a result, officials said, limits on the agency’s authorities enable it to provide enough support to help ensure that politically moderate, U.S.-supported militias don’t lose but not enough for them to win.
Whoever heard of such a thing? Planning on fighting a war to a stand off. Since the civil war has gone on for years in Syria, so obviously, that stand off red line has been reached. There’s no money to keep open air national monuments, but there’s enough money to send trainers half-a-world away to teach people how not to win a war?
If this was a movie, no one would pay a penny to see it because it’s so unbelievable.
The agency has trained fewer than 1,000 rebel fighters this year, current and former U.S. officials said. By contrast, U.S. intelligence analysts estimate that more than 20,000 have been trained to fight for government-backed militias by Assad’s ally Iran and the Hezbollah militant network it sponsors.
It all seems so pointless.
Category: Terror War
If the point is to create havoc with an end game of weakening the US, then it does make sense. Not the kind of sense from which normal Americans (or anyone else with a healthy survival instinct) operate, but to the commie bastards intent upon fulfilling the dream of destroying the US? Sure.
As the legendary Topper Harley said: “Playing not to win is like sleeping with your sister; sure, she’s a great piece of tail with a blouse full of goodies, but it’s just illegal”!
Here’s hoping “stalemate” means “let them kill each other off until every one of them is dead.”
To be fair, I think that’s what everyone who reads this blog has been hoping for since the beginning of the “Arab Spring.” If so, then CIA really does have its act together.
This only proves again that if you have a Half Assed C in C you get half assed wars. LBJ said that the Air Force couldn’t bomb a North Viet outhouse without his permission. How did that work out for him? And us?