Sen. Rand Paul: President Obama, what on God's green earth is our policy in Syria?
By Sen. Rand Paul
September 02, 2016
This is a serious matter. It should require serious people making real plans with metrics for victory and an end strategy in sight.
That is clearly not the case right now.
We are seeing reports that U.S. arms are fighting U.S. arms. Turkey has rolled U.S.-made M60 tanks into Syria to attack U.S.-backed Syrian Kurds. These Kurds have our weapons and support -- and have had special forces embedded with them.
We helped these Kurds take towns from ISIS, yet now we watch our ally in Turkey attack them and our Secretary of State tells them to retreat from the gains they made with our help.
A few miles away in Mare', Syria, CIA-backed "moderate" Syrian rebels fight Pentagon-backed Turkish Kurds.
All the while ISIS slithers away into the shadows to watch two U.S. allies devour each other.
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