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Galraedia

(5,026 posts) Thu Sep 17, 2015, 09:38 AM Sep 2015

Rachel Maddow - US spends $500 million in Syria, trains '4 or 5' fighters

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Rachel Maddow - US spends $500 million in Syria, trains '4 or 5' fighters (Original Post) Galraedia Sep 2015 OP

Not bad. Not bad at all. HassleCat Sep 2015 #1

Did not know we had special ops in Syria. Should have guessed as much but..... /nt think Sep 2015 #2

Like many black budget items, this money goes down the rat hole and comes out as leveymg Sep 2015 #3

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)

1. Not bad. Not bad at all.

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Thu Sep 17, 2015, 09:46 AM

Sep 2015

By military budget standards, that's cheap. $100 million per individual? Pah! Chump change!

think

(11,641 posts)

2. Did not know we had special ops in Syria. Should have guessed as much but..... /nt

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Thu Sep 17, 2015, 09:48 AM

Sep 2015

leveymg

(36,418 posts)

3. Like many black budget items, this money goes down the rat hole and comes out as

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Thu Sep 17, 2015, 10:13 AM

Sep 2015

plausibly deniable bloodbaths by groups we would never publicly support and may be publicly bombing. $500 million buys a lot of blood, but is only a tiny percentage of the actual cost of operations in Syria that have been going on for years before everything exploded into the open in 2011-12.

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