On the same day of the wall-to-wall coverage of the GOP presidential primary debate and a moving, beautiful tribute on the waterfront to five Chattanooga heroes brutally killed on July 16, a news story was breaking that should cause every American a great deal of anger and heartburn due to incompetence on display within our military and its response in Syria.
The New York Times reported that “Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the top American commander in the Middle East” informed the “Senate Armed Services Committee that the United States would not reach its goal of training 5,000 Syrian fighters anytime soon.”
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During a Wednesday hearing before the U.S. Senate’s Armed Services Committee, abject failure was exposed with hardly any response of disgust from anyone in leadership or concern about the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars that are being completely squandered.
According to The New York Times, “In May, the Defense Department began its training program for up to 5,400 fighters a year, in what White House officials described as a necessary component of President Obama’s strategy to use local troops on the ground against the Islamic State, combined with American air power.”