$41 million dollar trainees missing
According to CNN, the US spent $41 million to train 54 Syrians to fight against ISIS. Littler bang for your buck.
[Abu Iskander] and his “classmates,” known as the New Syria Force, are a key part of the U.S.’s anti-ISIS efforts. But there aren’t nearly enough of them to worry ISIS — yet.
The U.S. wants its train-and-equip scheme to help create a moderate and well-disciplined force to counter the Islamic radicals on the ground and assist moderate societies in finding a foothold in war-torn Syria.
Yeah, well, according to Politico, we’ve sorta lost track of the massive force;
After nearly 12 months of extensive international outreach, the program has so far yielded only 54 fighters — all of whom were killed, captured by terrorists in Syria or scattered when they came under attack this summer.
The White House’s original goal for the first year was for more than a brigade’s worth of combatants — about 5,400 — who would be able to push the Islamic State out of the villages it controls in northern Syria and then go on offense against the terror group.
The White House announced the program in May 2014, but didn’t start it until June this year. And by August all of the trainees were dead, captured or in the wind.
Why don’t we just drop the rest of the money we were going to spend on this program over Syria. At least it might discourage this migration thing. I guess this is what happens when you try to fight a war against terrorists on the cheap. It’s almost as if the administration wants to lose this war.
Category: Terror War
$41 million spent on something that produced nothing.
This must have been one of those ideas on a memo from the Good Ideas club.
When is this jackass leaving office? I will be SO GLAD when he’s gone AND forgotten.
Typical obozo screwup! That worthless a.h. probable spent a buck and a half on the ragheads and the rest went to obozo’s buddies the terrorists!
I know that 41 mil could have been spent much, much better by provisioning several brigades worth of our own Army and Marine infantry, with only ONE ROE:
(Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”)
. . . .
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
Indeed a single simple ROE, if you are not wearing a US uniform there’s an excellent chance you’ll soon be dead…
In the aftermath of a total annihiliation of our enemies, I prefer the saying, “Oderint dum Metuant”….Let them hate us so long as they fear us…(paraphrasing the translation a little)
Perhaps if we offered a enlistment/re-enlistment t-shirt it would help out.
It seems to work in the U.S Army in lieu of $$.
Sapper – get them a beret. It worked for Shinseki, didn’t it? 🙂
“It’s almost as if the administration wants to lose this war.”
Nailed it.
Hell- most of the military age “Syrians” are in the “Eurozone” heading for the US. Way past time to impeach the muzzie-in-chief.
Yep, time to tell them “Your families can stay here, but you just joined the New Syria Force. Time to ruck up buttercup.”
Instead of getting some bang for our bucks it looks like we got a bunch of “BLEHLEHLEHLEH !” instead!
Like everything else with administration it was a half-assed plan, executed half-assed and when everything eventually fell to shit the administration just threw up their hands and gave up. This current regime could fuck up a wet dream.
What have B. Hussein 0bama & Company ever done between his vacations, golf trips, and fundraisers other than execute a halfassed plan and blame Bush every time things go to shit?
Yeah, you can quote me. I rootin’ for the Russians.
They have a shovel ready Giduck and they are not afraid to use it.
If we teach just one of them how to properly execute a side straddle hop, isn’t it worth it?
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Epic!!!
That is some seriously funny shit right there. Great ending! “Oh lookie, I got a great shot of that muzzle flash! Wait.”
The Pentagon’s Syria debacle? The President sets policy & is the “decider”…Y’know, The Commander In Chief (or Al Sharpton lingo: Commander Of The Chiefs).
Leftist Politikco desperately trying to deflect blame away from their dear emperor w/ no clothes.
Can I get my tax money back?
Most important thing you have to get from the 41$m trainee program? It cost $500m, not $41m. On the cheap? Pretty much, if you’re going to play this stupid game in the middle east, you’ll be there awhile. I want you all to remember when we pulled out of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Oh wait, we’re still there and it’s 80 years later, “But we’re allies”. That still give tons of actual money to the economies of the conquered. Want to add another 6-10 nations to the list? It’s doable, but only if we really expand our economy. I’m talking outside of the current box. New energy, transportation, food source, ugh, the work would be immense. But if any nation could do it, it would be the USA. Because we’re every frigging nationality on the planet made into one.
They haven’t put as much into this war as they put into Solyndra! They are more committed to carbon taxes than to cleaning out ISIL! Isil will have to detonate a tactical Nuke on the capital before Obama will even acknowledge that they are a real threat.