Trump cancels CIA program to arm, train Syrian rebels: report

[mystery-ak]

Trump cancels CIA program to arm, train Syrian rebels: report

By Bob Fredericks

July 19, 2017 | 4:18pm | Updated

President Trump canceled the CIA’s secret program to arm and train Syrian rebels fighting the regime of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad — a move critics called a gift to Russia, a new report said Wednesday.

“This is a momentous decision. Putin won in Syria,” a US official who supported the program told the Washington Post.

The program to arm moderate Syrian rebels began under the Obama administration in 2013 and was continued under Trump until now.

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[edpc]

We do not need to be involved with these elements. Too many are bad actors and not enough are true friends.  Nothing good has ever come of intervention with ROP factions.

[driftdiver]

Why were we ever starting a war there?   Oh yeah an spring and we needed a few million refugees for our mass immigration plan.

[truth_seeker]

And the "US official who supported the program" may well be an Obama appointee, that believed it was good to topple Mubarak in Egypt, Khadafy in Libya, and set the muslim world on fire with the Arab-Spring.

Assad has safeguarded Christians in Syria. He is not a religious fanatic. He is a strong-arm dictator in a region that does best with leaders, like him.

Let Assad and his citizens run their country, with less outside intervention.