As US Commandos Arrive In Syria, Kurds Ask “Is This It?”

Tuesday, December 15, 2015
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
12/15/2015

As regular readers are no doubt aware, the US has done a lot of really silly things over the course of the last four or so years in Syria.

While there’s little question that the rise of ISIS takes the top spot in the “absurd outcomes” category, there are several legitimate contenders for runner-up. There’s The Pentagon’s $500 million “train and equip” program for instance, which was designed to field some 5,400 fearsome warriors with a mandate to fight Islamic State but only ended up yielding “four or five” after the rest of the group (which only amounted to 16 at the “high” point over the summer) died, got captured, defected, or ended up lost in the desert.

As amusing as that effort most certainly was, an even more ridiculous strategy emerged after the train and equip program was officially mothballed in October (we say it was mothballed, but you should note that the NDAA Obama just signed still allows for a half billion in funding for the Syrian opposition). Out of options, and with the Russians bearing down on the FSA and everyone else from the sky, the US decided to begin airdropping tons of ammo and weapons on pallets into the middle of the desert.

“U.S. air drops of weapons and ammunition intended for the Syrian Free Army, which is fighting Assad’s regime, could end up in the hands of Islamic State instead,” Vladimir Putin noted in mid-October, after calling the West “oatmeal heads” for their criticism of Russia’s involvement in the fight. But believe it or not, the fact that “non-moderate” forces might retrieve the arms was actually not the most absurd part of Washington’s small arms paradrop “plan.”

As we outlined in our classic piece “Full Metal Retard: US Launches ‘Performance-Based’ Ammo Paradrop Program For Make-Believe ‘Syrian Arabs,’” Washington was leery of openly arming the YPG for fear of angering Erdogan, who only four months ago finally agreed to allow the US to fly combat missions from Incirlik. So, The Pentagon essentially made up a new opposition force called the “Syrian Arab Coalition” and then proceeded to claim that the group merged with YPG sometime around the 10th of October. The idea, presumably, was that in case Erdogan got wind that the Americans were dropping small arms and ammo to the YPG (who Ankara equates with the PKK), Washington could claim that in fact, the weapons were going to the Syrian Arab Coalition, of which YPG was only a small part.

Erdogan didn’t buy it, but that’s another story.

The buffoonery was complete when Washington promised to continue paradropping weapons to “Syrian arabs” who probably don’t exist as long as their “performance” was judged to be adequate.

Fast forward to November and The White House announced it was set to deploy SpecOps to Syria (as though they weren’t already there). Well this week, we learn that the new troops are officially on the ground and amusingly the mainstream media is out claiming that they’ve been embedded with the “Syrian Democratic Force.”

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