The Pentagon has been slowly recruiting and training rebels to fight against the Islamic State in Syria. A contingent of U.S.-trained rebels was recently taken prisoner very shortly after entering the country, and the wheels continue to fall off the rebel trainee program:
CNN JUST IN: Remaining U.S. trained rebels in Syria are unaccounted for. May have fled, or been killed; whereabouts unknown.
— Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) August 6, 2015
Sounds like that’s going about as well as Obama’s Yemen “success story.”
@vplus You left off the most likely reason they are unaccounted for: they switched sides
— Don Surber (@donsurber) August 6, 2015
Yes, there’s that possibility as well.
https://twitter.com/AwFlath/status/629401025015721984
https://twitter.com/White_Bigot/status/629403149011324929
…or turned… wouldn't be the first batch crossing over… #ISIS https://t.co/FYvIxuRFQo
— Stephanie Lamy (@WCM_JustSocial) August 6, 2015
Like a very bad joke…https://t.co/rrhx4GHvGr
— Şafak Baş شفق (@TurkishIranian) August 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/ProfJRHalverson/status/629398973434867712
https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/629399735313432580
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So things are going well in Syria https://t.co/0jPyAAn5LH
— Disgruntled Barves Fan Off Szn (@TheScudStud) August 6, 2015
"We're gonna need some more vetted rebels, I guess." https://t.co/Ks7rXYN8jt pic.twitter.com/c8V9Yw0vsD
— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) August 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/Q1776/status/629401757567692801
Soon Josh Earnest might tell us that Obama hasn’t yet learned about this from news reports.