printHow corrupt and inept must you and your organization be to have spent half a billion dollars and to have produced only “4 or 5” trained people on the battlefield? The answer: As big as only the US government and military can be. You must also be a special can of stupid—statist stupid—to think that training hungry Arabs to do what you think they should be doing is anything but unethical (to them and to US taxpayers) and unworkable.
A US training program for Syrian rebels—oh, yes, US boots are on the Syrian ground; have been for a long time—was started back in May of this year. As is always the case with money not your own, for which you are not answerable—you squander it.
Senate testimony of Centcom commander, General Lloyd Austin, that the U.S. plan to train thousands of Syrian opposition soldiers has cost half a billion dollars and results in “4 or 5” trained people on the battlefield.
“Not 4 divisions or 4 battalions or even 4 platoons,” mocked Rachel Maddow, “but 4, maybe 5 individuals.”
That’s government efficiency for you.