Skylar
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WSJ...CIA backed MercsThe majority of trainers are Mercs.We have been using CIA backed Mercs. NOT our military.Equipping and *training*. How do you think we train them, slick? Air drop links to youtube tutorials?
"Trainers" has been synonymous with US military on the ground for more than half a century.
What dream land are you in that when republicans are demanding 'boots on the ground to defeat them in Syria', 'substantial US military involvement' and 'ground troops in Syria' that they WEREN'T referring to the US military?
Prove it.
Because recent history is not your friend.
President Barack Obama will send as many as 450 more U.S. military personnel to train Iraqi forces combating Islamic State militants, as his administration adjusts its strategy to contain the extremist group.
Obama Sending 450 Military Trainers to Base in Iraq’s Anbar
U.S. Army trainers instruct Iraqi Army recruits at a military base on April 12, 2015 in Taji, Iraq.
Can the U.S. Military Train the Iraqi Army to Victory Over ISIS?
But as the U.S. aims to wrap up its military mission in Afghanistan, Campbell said U.S. military trainers may have to accept that those weaknesses will not be entirely eliminated.
Top general in Afghanistan considers 2016 troop levels
When the Salvadorans called for U.S. assistance, the U.S. Army focused on training El Salvadoran Army units using a variety of methods. The Americans trained a series of immediate reaction battalions (IRBs) in 1981 and 1982 to help stem the tide. Many of the trainers of these units included members of the newly revitalized Army Special Forces that had almost been eliminated after Vietnam.
Chapter 12: American Military History, Volume II
In May 1961, Kennedy sent 400 U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret) troops into South Vietnam's Central Highlands to train Montagnard tribesmen in counterinsurgency tactics. He also tripled the level of aid to South Vietnam.
The Military and Diplomatic Course of the Vietnam War
Trainers means US troops. And has for a very, very long time.
And Republicans have been calling for equipping, training and boots on the ground. All of which is US military. That you didn't get that only means you're not informed enough to participate in your own thread.
U.S. Sees Russian Drive Against CIA-Backed Rebels in Syria
And where does that article say that the majority of trainers are mercs?
Because I've given you 5 different examples spanning 50 years that demonstrates you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
And worse, republicans have called for boots on the ground in Syria. Exactly what you've already admitted means 'US military'. So you have no narrative, imaginary or otherwise, where Republicans *weren't* calling for US ground troop involvement in Syria.
Yet you've completely revised history and imagined that republicans have nothing to do with it.
Again.....wow.