КстатЕ, никто не знает, почему мы не несём демократию в Катар, СаудиАрабию или ОАЭ? Совсем не переживаем за права человеков, неправильные выборы, фсё такое Гей-парадов вот опять же там явно недостаточно проводят.

Steve Kroft: ... bombing the people-- that we are supporting.

Steve Kroft: The last time we talked was this time last year, and the situation in Syria and Iraq had begun to worsen vis-à-vis ISIS. You had just unveiled a plan to provide air support for troops in Iraq, and also some air strikes in Syria, and the training and equipping of a moderate Syrian force. You said that this would degrade and eventually destroy ISIS.

President Barack Obama: Over time.

Steve Kroft: Over time. It's been a year, and--

President Barack Obama: I didn't say it was going to be done in a year.

Steve Kroft: No. But you said...



Steve Kroft: I want us to take some of these things one by one. You mentioned an awful lot of things. One, the situation with ISIS, you've managed to achieve a stalemate. So what's going to happen to ISIS?

President Barack Obama: Well, over time--

Steve Kroft: I mean, they have to be-- somebody has to take them on. I mean, what's going on right now is not working. I mean, they are still occupying big chunks of Iraq. They're still occupying a good chunk of Syria. Who's going to get rid of them?

President Barack Obama: Over time, the community of nations will all get rid of them, and we will be leading getting rid of them

Steve Kroft: You have been talking about the moderate opposition in Syria. It seems very hard to identify. And you talked about the frustrations of trying to find some and train them. You got a half a billion dollars from Congress to train and equip 5,000, and at the end, according to the commander CENTCOM, you got 50 people, most of whom are dead or deserted. He said four or five left?

President Barack Obama: Steve, this is why I've been skeptical from the get go about the notion that we were going to effectively create this proxy army inside of Syria. My goal has been to try to test the proposition, can we be able to train and equip a moderate opposition that's willing to fight ISIL? And what we've learned is that as long as Assad remains in power, it is very difficult to get those folks to focus their attention on ISIL.

Steve Kroft: If you were skeptical of the program to find and identify, train and equip moderate Syrians, why did you go through the program?

President Barack Obama: Well, because part of what we have to do here, Steve, is to try different things. Because we also have partners on the ground that are invested and interested in seeing some sort of resolution to this problem. And--

Steve Kroft: And they wanted you to do it.

Steve Kroft: It's an embarrassment.

President Barack Obama: Look, there's no doubt that it did not work.

President Barack Obama: ....So the notion that after a year in Syria, a country where the existing government hasn't invited us in, but is actively keeping us out, that somehow we would be able to solve this quickly-- is--

Steve Kroft: One of the key players now is Russia.

President Barack Obama: Yeah.

Steve Kroft: Did you know he was going to do all this when you met with him in New York?

President Barack Obama: Well, we had seen-- we had pretty good intelligence. We watch--

Steve Kroft: So you knew he was planning to do it.

President Barack Obama: We knew that he was planning to provide the military assistance that Assad was needing because they were nervous about a potential imminent collapse of the regime.

More than a week after the Pentagon announced that it had dropped 50 tons of ammunition to Syrian Arabs to support a new offensive against Islamic State extremists, it’s uncertain who exactly it reached.

Leaders of two principal Arab militias said they hadn’t received any arms aid and doubted that any Arab forces had.



Another Arab militia commander, Abu Issa, the commander of Liwa Thurwar Al-Raqqa, the Raqqa Revolutionaries, told McClatchy his forces in Raqqa province had not received any U.S. support. He, too, said he knew of no other Arab group that had.

Девы, поставлю часть интервью Обамы, касаемо Сирии, и сюда. Не верю своим глазам и ушам. И это президент страны

More than a week after the Pentagon announced that it had dropped 50 tons of ammunition to Syrian Arabs to support a new offensive against Islamic State extremists, it’s uncertain who exactly it reached.

The US Must Supply anti-Aircraft Missiles to the Syrian Opposition


https://russian.rt.com/inotv/2015-10-22 ... a-Moskvi-i

В Сирии в настоящее время сконцентрировано огромное количество оружия из разных стран, в связи с чем президент России выразил недоумение тем, откуда у боевиков деньги на вооружения.

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Внук Саддама Хуссейна – храбрейший мальчик XXI века. Он гонял 6 часов американский спецназ (400 человек)

Американская газета New York Times выбрала “самого храброго и бесстрашного мальчика XXI века.”
Этот мальчик - Мустафа Саддам Хусейн из Ирака. 14-летний внук Саддама Хусейна стал последним, кто с автоматом в руках оказал сопротивление американским спецназовцам во время штурма особняка шейха Наввафа Зейдана. В тот момент он оставался единственным живым человеком в доме, а рядом с ним лежали трупы его отца Кусая, дяди Удэя и их охранника Абдель-Самада.

По свидетельству американских солдат, участвовавших в операции, когда они ворвались в дом, Мустафа Хуссейн открыл по ним огонь из автомата.

Американские войска численностью в 400 солдат блокировали его. После того, как у него перед глазами убили дядю и отца, мальчик отстреливался и убил 14 американских пехотинцев из снайперской винтовки. Бой с внуком Саддама Хуссейна длился около шести часов.

Когда американцы убили мальчика, они не могли поверить в то, что столько времени им противостоял один человек, а ещё больше их повергло в шок то, что это был фактически - ребёнок.

В конце статьи о Мустафе журналист газеты New York Times Роберт Ейск пишет: "Если бы у нас был кто-то, подобный этому мальчику, то мы бы построили ему в каждом городе памятник. Говорили бы о его храбрости везде и всюду, и он был бы примером для подражания подрастающему поколению, было бы на кого равняться".

ТЕГЕРАН, 23 октября. /Корр. ТАСС Александр Левченко/. Террористическая группировка "Исламское государство" (ИГ) получает $40-50 млн в месяц с месторождений нефти, захваченных на территории Сирии и Ирака. Об этом сообщило иранское агентство Тасним.

Интересно было бы найти это на английском.