One of the top US military commanders, Maj-Gen Rick Lynch, confirmed the US was moving in the direction of training and arming Sunni groups to secure their own areas, often under the mantle of the Iraqi police force.[...]
It is the latest move in what is clearly becoming one of the main thrusts of the US exit strategy here - to empower and arm Sunni Arab tribes and factions, provided they pledge to resist outside militants like al-Qaeda.
That's a pretty big provision, and I see where there might just be some problems monitoring, much less enforcing, such a pledge.
Actually, what with having 190,000 assault rifles and pistols distributed in the country unaccounted for, we are actually simply arming the whole country. While simultaneously sending soldiers around door-to-door to confiscate weapons. I need a scorecard.
It's a big rat-f#@k. Isn't it?
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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