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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPentagon to deploy 400 troops to train Syrian rebels
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is planning to deploy more than 400 troops to help train Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State, along with hundreds of U.S. support personnel, a Pentagon spokesman told Reuters on Thursday.
http://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-deploy-400-troops-train-syrian-rebels-061310008.html
Einstein's definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result
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Pentagon to deploy 400 troops to train Syrian rebels (Original Post)
Man from Pickens
Jan 2015
OP
Just a flat refusal to not be fucking stupid. These fools keep going for another bite of the apple
TheKentuckian
Jan 2015
#1
I wonder what the name of the next terrorist group formed because of our
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2015
#4
So we are going to train the next round of "folks", whom we will fight next time?
silvershadow
Jan 2015
#7
TheKentuckian
(24,934 posts)1. Just a flat refusal to not be fucking stupid. These fools keep going for another bite of the apple
till they get it.
Hold them off, they'll get it eventually.
Fuck it!
easychoice
(1,043 posts)2. Good Morning Viet Nam
this will not end well.
merrily
(45,251 posts)3. Bob Hope, greeting the troops in Vietnam many years ago. "Hello, advisors."
Reaction from the troops: a combination of rueful laughter and jeering.
Just for the record, though,there is no evidence that Einstein ever said that and it does not appear in his writings. It certainly is, though, one definition of insanity (not THE definition, as many incorrectly say).
While I am at it, this is not photoshopped, as I originally assumed:
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liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)4. I wonder what the name of the next terrorist group formed because of our
military intervention will be? This reminds me of Hercules trying to cut off the heads of the Hydra only to have five more pop up.
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)5. What could possibly go wrong?
KG
(28,749 posts)6. lighten up, people. don't ya get it, everything will be awesome
because obama!
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)7. So we are going to train the next round of "folks", whom we will fight next time?
Sounds about right. Straight out of the playbook. smh.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)8. and give them weapons, too!
More bang! for the buck.