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Trump Shuts Down CIA Program Arming Syrian Rebels
Posted on 7/19/17 at 5:58 pm
Posted on 7/19/17 at 5:58 pm
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President Trump is shutting down the CIA’s program to arm and train rebels fighting the Syrian government, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, a victory for Russia, which has called for the move for years.
Officials told the Post that shutting down the program, begun by the Obama administration in 2013, is a sign of Trump’s attempts to work with Russia, which has viewed the U.S. attempts to force out Syrian President Bashar Assad during that country’s civil war as an attack on its own interests.
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Posted on 7/19/17 at 5:59 pm to MButterfly
We should have stayed out to begin with
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:01 pm to MButterfly
Positive move by Trump but the Saudis will just step up their arms trade.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:03 pm to MButterfly
This move should have bipartisan support but it won't...
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:04 pm to Rakim
The Saudis may be able to replace our material support, but they can't provide the intelligence, training, and c2.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:05 pm to MButterfly
Is there anything Hussain didn't give to his Muslim Brotherhood? It's going to take 2 generations to recover from Hussain & Hillary selling out this Republic.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:05 pm to 225bred
It won't because the left will use it to repeat the russian connection.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:07 pm to Rakim
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Saudis will just step up their arms trade.
They're buying their shite from us so it is win/win
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:07 pm to MButterfly
Called it.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:11 pm to MButterfly
How can people still say that trump isn't an islamophobe??
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:16 pm to MrLarson
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They're buying their shite from us so it is win/win
Yea I think it's semantics
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:19 pm to MButterfly
Awesome move, the next step should be training and arming the legitimate secular government to fight the Wahhabist terrorists.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:20 pm to el Gaucho
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How can people still say that trump isn't an islamophobe??
lol wut?
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:33 pm to OnTheGeaux
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Is there anything Hussain didn't give to his Muslim Brotherhood?
Was this before or after we fought that war because reagan thought that bin Ladin fellow was such a good guy
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:41 pm to oklahogjr
That would be after. After our citizens were held hostage for four hundred and forty fricking four days from spineless Democrat leadership.
Remind me... Assad has done what to American citizens?
Remind me... Assad has done what to American citizens?
This post was edited on 7/19/17 at 6:43 pm
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:47 pm to MButterfly
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“People began thinking about ending the program, but it was not something you’d do for free,” said a former White House official. “To give [the program] away without getting anything in return would be foolish.”
The best deals, folks!
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:48 pm to Strannix
He's too afraid to give the Syrian refugees guns!
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:50 pm to oklahogjr
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Was this before or after we fought that war because reagan thought that bin Ladin fellow was such a good guy
Posted on 7/19/17 at 6:56 pm to goatmilker
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The shuttering of the CIA program does not mark the end of U.S. involvement in Syria — Trump signed off in May on a plan to arm the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish rebel group, using Department of Defense funds. The Post reports that Trump decided to shut down the CIA program last month after meeting with CIA Director Mike Pompeo and national security adviser H.R. McMaster. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin struck a deal for a partial cease-fire during their meeting at the Group of 20 summit earlier this month, set for a region of Syria where rebels supported by the CIA are stationed. One current official told the Post that the decision is a massive concession to Moscow, saying that “Putin won in Syria.”
Posted on 7/19/17 at 7:00 pm to FunroePete
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One current official told the Post that the decision is a massive concession to Moscow, saying that “Putin won in Syria.”
Putin won Syria 3 years ago.
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