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HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
Sun Sep 20, 2015, 10:51 AM Sep 2015

Good news regarding Syria

Tom Perry and Mark Potter for Reuters. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/syrian-monitor-75-us-trained-syrian-rebels-enter-syria-from-turkey/ar-AAewpHS?li=BBgzzfc&ocid=iehp

Their article says 75 rebel fighters trained by the US “…and its allies…” have been shipped off to Syria to fight against the Islamic State. This make me feel better. Remember the article explaining we spent $500 million to train two rebels? Now we have 75, so that’s only $6.6 million each. Now that’s efficiency! When we can train a rebel fighter for less than seven million bucks, things are looking up.

This reminds me of those old commercials made by the noisy, fast talking, arm waving guys who sold furniture, used cars, etc. “I lose money on every appliance I sell! How do I stay in business? Volume! VOLUME!”

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