Jeezus. It Just Gets Nutser

Accompanied by the sound of screaming in my head…

For most of the three years of the Syrian conflict, the U.S. ground game hinged on rebel militias that are loosely affiliated under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, or FSA. Their problems were no secret: a lack of cohesion, uneven fighting skills and frequent battlefield coordination with the al Qaida loyalists of the Nusra Front.

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John Allen, the retired Marine general in charge of coordinating the U.S.-led coalition’s response to the Islamic State, confirmed Wednesday what Syrian rebel commanders have complained about for months – that the United States is ditching the old Free Syrian Army and building its own local ground force to use primarily in the fight against the Islamist extremists.

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This time, Allen said, the United States and its allies will work to strengthen the political opposition and make sure it’s tied to “a credible field force” that will have undergone an intense vetting process.

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There will be a simultaneous training-and-equipping campaign for Iraq, where the U.S.-trained military collapsed during the Islamic State’s summer offensive.

  McClatchy

We’re not even trying to hide it any more.  It’s not only our right, it’s our duty.

Obama is now the Commander in Chief of any army in the world.  We build 'em.   We use 90% indigenous materials.  Instant armies.  Anywhere.  Any time.

"We have the capacity to do both, and there is significant coalition interest in participating in both,” Allen said of the twin force-building efforts in Iraq and Syria. But, as he stressed repeatedly in his remarks, “it’s going to take a while.”

And a shitload of taxpayer money.  Perhaps subsidized by CIA drug money.  Or who knows how they're getting their black budget these days.

Perhaps to maintain a semblance of sanity, I will from here on out pretend we are just a movie.  The gods must be rolling in the aisles.

Brigade 2507, in case that doesn't ring a bell, is a perfect moniker (only by now it's probably up to 2527):  

"Brigade 2506 (Brigada Asalto 2506) was the name given to a CIA-sponsored group of Cuban exiles formed in 1960 to attempt the military overthrow of the Cuban government headed by Fidel Castro. It carried out the abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion landings in Cuba on 17 April 1961."  - Wikipedia