Free Syrian Army rebel, future foe.
Try not to act
too surprised.
"... the CIA regards the effort [to arm Syrian rebels] as doomed to failure," the congressman said in an email. "Specifically (again without referring to classified information), the CIA thinks that it is impossible to train and equip a force of pro-Western Syrian nationals that can fight and defeat Assad, al-Nusra and ISIS, regardless of whatever air support that force may receive."
He added that, as the CIA sees it, the ramped-up backing of rebels is an expansion of a strategy that is already not working. "The CIA also believes that its previous assignment to accomplish this was basically a fool’s errand, and they are well aware of the fact that many of the arms that they provided ended up in the wrong hands," the congressman said, echoing intelligence sources.
In other words, we're sending arms to the very people who will be the Greatest Hitlers in History in 10 years, which will require us to arm a new generation of rebels, who will then turn on us the decade after. And so on.
Lather, rinse, repeat.