YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: $500M TO TRAIN 5 ‘MODERATE’ SYRIAN REBELS

Not only did we fail to build a ‘moderate’ Syrian rebel force, but many of the weapons intended for this force were turned over to al-Qaeda affiliated groups

BarkGrowlBite | September 28, 2015

Congratulations are in order for the Obama Administration now that the results are in of its 2014 allocation of $500 million to train and equip a ‘moderate’ rebel force to do battle with ISIS.

When questioned Wednesday by the Senate armed services committee about how many rebels are on the ground fighting that have been trained with the $500 million allocation, Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, head of US Central Command, answered “four or five.”

What a resounding success! That comes to a tenth of a billion dollars spent training and equipping each rebel.

That isn’t all. Now we learn that many of the weapons intended for the ‘moderate’ rebel force were turned over to al-Qaeda affiliated groups.

But not to worry. Gen. Austin told the senate committee that we have another hundred million dollars “in the pipeline.” And there are reports that the Pentagon is willing to spend $600 million more. If the past is any indicator, with the added funding we will have a dozen rebels fighting ISIS, that is if the original five are still around. And al-Qaeda will get more of our weapons.

Again, congratulations to the Obama Administration for putting $500 million of our taxes to work so successfully.