Obama Taps Star General To Build Syrian Rebel Army To Fight ISIS -- Eli Lake & Josh Rogin, Daily Beast
General Michael Nagata is promising to build a new force to destroy ISIS but lawmakers worry he has been given an impossible mission.
As lawmakers prepared to take a risky and fateful vote on Obama’s plan to train and equip the Syrian rebels, the man who assured them it could be done was Gen. Michael Nagata, Obama’s point man for the mission to build an ISIS-killing army in Syria.
There are skeptics both inside and outside the government who doubt Obama’s new plan to arm the Syrian rebels can work. First of all, the administration has said for years that the moderate opposition can’t be a reliable partner for the United States in Syria. Only last month, Obama said that the rag-tag bunch of “former doctors, farmers, and pharmacists” could never win their civil war and the whole idea that arming them earlier would have made a difference has “always been a fantasy.”
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My Comment: I do not envy him in this new mission .... and if he should succeed .... make a four-star.
Update: Here are five important things to note about Gen. Nagata (Washington Free Beacon).
3 comments:
I play a little golf and what happens: St John starts typing in lower case, Ukrainian accusations of Separatist use of the stealthiest nukes on record(no noise, no muss, no fuss), Ex-Pat Russian admits to secret fantasy of frolicking with Leprechauns while drinking in Irish pubs, a Norwegian wants to visit Russia for no discernible reason, the fall of Rome explained in one clear paragraph, I must go lay down for the world has gone mad, mad I say.
James ... I was not aware that you had an issue about Leprechauns. As to drinking in pubs .... the stories that I can tell .... the stories .... and all for a pint of real to goodness Guinness.
Yup ... I can see it now .... a Russian Alpha team heading to Montreal to make sure that he does not say a word .... not a word.
Sighhh .... this blog is going to get me killed one day.
You Russians are a tough bunch, but you start cavorting with the Little People and it won't be "All Quiet On The Don"!
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