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Romney: Arm Syrian Rebels

Mike

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Remember Mitt Romney making this statement in the debates? Well, it's come back to haunt Buckwheat..................

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/22/panetta-says-us-paying-price-for-not-arming-syrian-rebels/

Panetta says we are now "Paying The Price" for that inaction. DUH!!!!!!!!
 
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Anonymous

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History hasn't proven us to have a very good track record in these things!... :wink: :roll:


June 27, 2014
Moderate Syrian Rebel Application Form

By Andy Borowitz

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—After announcing, on Thursday, that it would seek $500 million to help “train and equip appropriately vetted elements of the moderate Syrian armed opposition,” the White House today posted the following Moderate Syrian Rebel Application Form:

Welcome to the United States’ Moderate Syrian Rebel Vetting Process. To see if you qualify for $500 million in American weapons, please choose an answer to the following questions:

As a Syrian rebel, I think the word or phrase that best describes me is:
A) Moderate
B) Very moderate
C) Crazy moderate
D) Other



I became a Syrian rebel because I believe in:
A) Truth
B) Justice
C) The American Way
D) Creating an Islamic caliphate

If I were given a highly lethal automatic weapon by the United States, I would:
A) Only kill exactly the people that the United States wanted me to kill
B) Try to kill the right people, with the caveat that I have never used an automatic weapon before
C) Kill people only after submitting them to a rigorous vetting process
D) Immediately let the weapon fall into the wrong hands

I have previously received weapons from:
A) Al Qaeda
B) The Taliban
C) North Korea
D) I did not receive weapons from any of them because after they vetted me I was deemed way too moderate

I consider ISIS:
A) An existential threat to Iraq
B) An existential threat to Syria
C) An existential threat to Iraq and Syria
D) The people who will pick up my American weapon after I drop it and run away

Complete the following sentence. “American weapons are…”
A) Always a good thing to randomly add to any international hot spot
B) Exactly what this raging civil war has been missing for the past three years
C) Best when used moderately
D) Super easy to resell online

Thank you for completing the Moderate Syrian Rebel Application Form. We will process your application in the next one to two business days. Please indicate a current mailing address where you would like your weapons to be sent. If there is no one to sign for them we will leave them outside the front door.
 

Mike

Well-known member
What's all that mumbo-jumbo supposed to mean? His Secretary of Defense has said he screwed up and many happen to agree. Get over it! :roll:
 
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Anonymous

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Oldtimer said:




History hasn't proven us to have a very good track record in these things!... :wink: :roll:


June 27, 2014
Moderate Syrian Rebel Application Form

By Andy Borowitz

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—After announcing, on Thursday, that it would seek $500 million to help “train and equip appropriately vetted elements of the moderate Syrian armed opposition,” the White House today posted the following Moderate Syrian Rebel Application Form:

Welcome to the United States’ Moderate Syrian Rebel Vetting Process. To see if you qualify for $500 million in American weapons, please choose an answer to the following questions:

As a Syrian rebel, I think the word or phrase that best describes me is:
A) Moderate
B) Very moderate
C) Crazy moderate
D) Other



I became a Syrian rebel because I believe in:
A) Truth
B) Justice
C) The American Way
D) Creating an Islamic caliphate

If I were given a highly lethal automatic weapon by the United States, I would:
A) Only kill exactly the people that the United States wanted me to kill
B) Try to kill the right people, with the caveat that I have never used an automatic weapon before
C) Kill people only after submitting them to a rigorous vetting process
D) Immediately let the weapon fall into the wrong hands

I have previously received weapons from:
A) Al Qaeda
B) The Taliban
C) North Korea
D) I did not receive weapons from any of them because after they vetted me I was deemed way too moderate

I consider ISIS:
A) An existential threat to Iraq
B) An existential threat to Syria
C) An existential threat to Iraq and Syria
D) The people who will pick up my American weapon after I drop it and run away

Complete the following sentence. “American weapons are…”
A) Always a good thing to randomly add to any international hot spot
B) Exactly what this raging civil war has been missing for the past three years
C) Best when used moderately
D) Super easy to resell online

Thank you for completing the Moderate Syrian Rebel Application Form. We will process your application in the next one to two business days. Please indicate a current mailing address where you would like your weapons to be sent. If there is no one to sign for them we will leave them outside the front door.

Finding the 'right' rebels in Syria: One tough job


By Tim Lister, CNN

updated 10:04 AM EDT, Mon September 22, 2014


STORY HIGHLIGHTS
U.S. has promised to supply and train "acceptable" rebels in Syria
At best, analysts say the plan could cement Bashar al-Assad's grip on power
More likely is perpetual anarchy, escalation in refugee crisis, destabilization and export of jihad


(CNN) -- The United States has promised to supply weapons, communications equipment and training to rebels in Syria so they can help battle the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS.) Now comes the hard part: identifying "acceptable" groups able and willing to take the fight to ISIS. The security landscape in Syria changes daily. Alliances and priorities among the many rebel groups shift, fortunes ebb and flow. And the hard truth is that none of them appears able to uproot ISIS from its strongholds in north-eastern Syria.

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Surveying this grim landscape, one could be excused for wondering how vetting and training rebel fighters -- 5,000 to start with -- can turn the tide. Landis says 5,000 -- properly armed, disciplined and provided with intelligence could dent either ISIS or the Assad regime. "Assad is very weak, after four years of war," he says, "but at the moment the others are all weaker."

The rosiest scenario, says Landis, sees moderate Sunni groups eventually carving out a state in northern Syria, expelling ISIS in the process, while the regime holds onto Damascus and a swathe of the coast around Latakia. But Syria has a habit of confounding all but the grimmest of scenarios, and Landis acknowledges that "perpetual anarchy" seems more likely.

There is another pitfall in fuelling the conflict with more weapons: escalating fighting could drive even more Syrians across the border, further destabilizing Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. The U.S. has consistently sought to contain the Syrian conflict; ISIS would like nothing better than to export it.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/22/world/meast/syria-rebels-lister/index.html?hpt=hp_t1



Tuesday, September 16, 2014 14:44

“Kerry Claims U.S. Has Found a Moderate Syrian Rebel”

by Andy Borowitz

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “In what Secretary of State John Kerry described as a significant foreign-policy coup, the U.S. claimed, on Tuesday, that it had successfully located a moderate Syrian rebel. Though Kerry did not elaborate on how the U.S. did so, he said that locating the rebel was “the culmination of a months-long effort.” The Secretary of State said that the Syrian had been appropriately vetted and was deemed “moderately rebellious.” “He definitely seems to be the sort of gentleman we can work with,” Kerry said, adding that several millions of dollars would be spent arming and training the rebel in the days and weeks ahead.

Kerry said that the government’s successful identification of a moderate Syrian rebel was a major victory that should silence critics of the U.S.’s strategy in Iraq and Syria. “To all of the naysayers who have been arguing that there are no moderate Syrian rebels, I am here today to say that we have found one,” Kerry said. “And if we have found one, that means that there must be others out there.”

Yep- after reading the real news article and then reading Borowitz-- its hard to tell which is supposed to be the satire... The whole thing looks like the comical tragedy's we've played out in the past of arming folks who really don't like us-- and tomorrow will probably be using those weapons and money to kill us ! :( :???:
 

hypocritexposer

Well-known member
Oldtimer said:
and tomorrow will probably be using those weapons and money to kill us ! :( :???:

That was obama's goal with the "arab spring"...he's a community disorganizer, afterall

You voted for this type of thing OT. He won't listen to his military advisors...
 

littlejoe

Well-known member
hypocritexposer said:
Oldtimer said:
and tomorrow will probably be using those weapons and money to kill us ! :( :???:

That was obama's goal with the "arab spring"...he's a community disorganizer, afterall

You voted for this type of thing OT. He won't listen to his military advisors...

Canadians should use the term 'military advisors' moderately--if at all.

last advice their navy got: well, we think you should buy a boat.

advice given Canadian airforce was similar, but I believe a balloon or possibly? plane was mentioned.
 
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