{"id":57703,"date":"2015-01-16T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57703"},"modified":"2015-01-16T08:26:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T13:26:30","slug":"400-us-troops-to-train-moderate-syrians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57703","title":{"rendered":"400 US troops to train &#8220;moderate Syrians&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/national\/us-to-train-equip-moderate-syria-rebels\/30753072?utm_source=Social&#038;utm_medium=FBPAGE&#038;utm_campaign=WCVB+Channel+5+Boston+-+wcvb5&#038;linkId=11758707\">the CNN story<\/a> which reports that the US is sending 400 troops to train what the article calls &#8220;moderate Syrian rebels&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those groups are battling forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and extremist groups like ISIS, as well as others linked to al Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>The mission would be led by the military and complement a modest training CIA program, based on what was authorized by the White House more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is growing recognition that the Assad regime is an enabler of extremism,&#8221; Oubai Shahbandar, an adviser to the Syrian Opposition Council, said in May.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just as a reminder; the Islamic State is fighting against the Assad government, too. Those US troops going to Syria will be surrounded. There are complaints that we lack the resources for good intelligence in the region, so I&#8217;m wondering how the folks who do that will know which are &#8220;moderates&#8221; and which are extremists. The potential for Green-on-Blue attacks is pretty high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sends us a link to the CNN story which reports that the US is sending &hellip; <a title=\"400 US troops to train &#8220;moderate Syrians&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57703\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">400 US troops to train &#8220;moderate Syrians&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}