Can anything the Obama administration does surprise anyone any more? The disorganization. The Confusion. The total lack of cohesive guidance. It just goes on and on and on. And there are those who want to see this continue in 2017 by electing someone who's fingerprints are all over this “foreign policy?”
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And yet, this article says the previous one is in error. Or at least complicated. It provides the following map:
So then, the author goes along to explain this:
So, to sum up: The non-Pentagon-backed SDF are fighting the CIA-backed northern Aleppo rebels, who are fighting alongside Pentagon-backed train-and-equip rebels against the Islamic State. The CIA-backed rebels are not fighting the Pentagon-backed SDF. They are fighting a different faction that does not enjoy U.S. support (and may have actually recently enjoyed Russian support). And the Pentagon-backed SDF is fighting the Islamic State in eastern Syria, half a country away.
If you can figure all this out, you're way ahead of me.
This full story can be read @ Are CIA-backed Syrian Rebels Really Fighting Pentagon-backed Syrian Rebels?
