The U.S. Plan To Combat The Islamic State In Syria Is Falling Apart

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires an anti-tank missile Photo: Reuters

Michael Weiss, Daily Beast: Exclusive: Key Rebels Ready to Quit U.S. Fight Vs. ISIS

They were ready to accept American guns and training. But a key rebel group can’t accept the Obama administration’s insistence that they lay off Syria’s dictator.

A centerpiece of the U.S. war plan against ISIS is in danger of collapsing. A key rebel commander and his men are ready to ready to pull out in frustration of the U.S. program to train a rebel army to beat back the terror group in Syria, The Daily Beast has learned.

The news comes as ISIS is marching on the suburbs of Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city. Rebels currently fighting the jihadists there told The Daily Beast that the U.S.-led coalition isn't even bothering to respond to their calls for airstrikes to stop the jihadist army.

Mustapha Sejari, one of the rebels already approved for the U.S. training program, told The Daily Beast that he and his 1,000 men are on the verge of withdrawing from the program. The issue: the American government's demand that the rebels can't use any of their newfound battlefield prowess or U.S.-provided weaponry against the army of Bashar al-Assad or any of its manifold proxies and allies, which include Iranian-built militias such as Lebanese Hezbollah. They must only fight ISIS, Washington insists.

WNU Editor: This to me is just another indication on there being no U.S. plan or strategy on what to do in Syria and Iraq. Everything is "schizophrenic" .... telling combatants on who to fight and who not to fight .... in a mess like Syria .... is impossible to implement.