| Tango01 | 04 Mar 2015 10:41 p.m. PST |
,,, Any 'Moderate' Syrian Rebel Allies. " Nusra Front militants seized American weapons and food supplies in Syria
* Products were provided to the Western-backed rebel group Harakat Hazm
* But the rebels disbanded last week and their warehouses were overrun
* Images emerged as Nusra Front announced plans to leave Al Qaeda
* Rebel group is considering the split to attract Qatari financiers who could help the militants create a terror organisation to rival ISIS…"
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| Mako11 | 04 Mar 2015 10:48 p.m. PST |
Predictable, so good we didn't give them some of the heavier weaponry they wanted, or AQ/ISIS would now have it, which is why it wasn't given in the first place. |
 Legion 4   | 04 Mar 2015 11:06 p.m. PST |
Another missed opportunity ? Only time will tell … |
| Only Warlock | 05 Mar 2015 4:35 a.m. PST |
Incredibly stupid idea to arm them in the first place. |
| Klebert L Hall | 05 Mar 2015 8:38 a.m. PST |
Foreign policy lately has not exactly been "top-notch".
-Kle. |
| Cyrus the Great | 05 Mar 2015 9:16 a.m. PST |
Foreign policy thinking would first have to embrace the 21st century. The Kurds do all the heavy lifting and the U.S. gives them  support, because we don't want to upset our so-called, NATO ally Turkey. We still think of Iraq as a country and we don't want to arms the Kurds too much because they could exercise self-determination in the future. Too much 20th century thinking going on by our government. |
| Bangorstu | 05 Mar 2015 1:37 p.m. PST |
Of course had we armed them, they might have been able to deal with ISIS… Who have, after all, got all the heavy wepaonry they need from the Iraqi army. |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 05 Mar 2015 2:17 p.m. PST |
Our 'support' for these moderate rebels were half-hearted at best. It's a tacit admission that ousting Assad is not in our best interests and will only further destabilize the region. Any meaningful support to these moderate non-jihadist rebels will likely be countered by Assad's Iranian and Russian patrons, and doesn't help with the fight against Daesh since Assad and his shiite Alawite sect are their mortal enemies. It's just as well, since these moderates really are between a rock and a hard place in a region of extremes. |
| Lion in the Stars | 05 Mar 2015 2:54 p.m. PST |
Foreign policy lately has not exactly been "top-notch". Since about 2008, though the foreign policy decisions made in 2003-04 weren't much better. But I still don't see any way of stomping DAESH without lots of boots on the ground. |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 05 Mar 2015 4:22 p.m. PST |
But I still don't see any way of stomping DAESH without lots of boots on the ground. As long as they're Persian boots as opposed to American ones it's fine by me. |
| Gear Pilot | 05 Mar 2015 5:00 p.m. PST |
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| Lion in the Stars | 05 Mar 2015 6:36 p.m. PST |
@Kyoteblue: Ambush Alley or AK47 Republic, and I prefer Ambush Alley. |
| Mako11 | 06 Mar 2015 12:30 a.m. PST |
An awful lot of that Iraqi army weaponry came from the USA, and they got an awful lot of training from us, not that they put any of that to use, effectively at least. Turning over more weaponry to civilians wouldn't have turned out any better, I suspect. Think Renaissance, Italian Wars in the Middle East, kyote, with lots of factions involved, paid armies, and lots of backstabbing and double-dealing. That'd be a good start for the macro level, which of course trickles down to the individual factions as well, each with their own, varied agendas. I'd go with a modification of the AK-47 rules, and 15mm scale, for the skirmish levels games. |
