Carolina. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york. Im tony harris. The Obama Administration is overhauling its program to equip and train moderate syrian rebels. Ash carter says the effort has failed to produce real results. Mike viqueira is live for us in washington. Mike, before we talk about what changes are coming to the program, can you talk for a moment about what a complete and utter failure the program has been to this point . Reporter i dont think theres any sugar coating it at all. 500 million was just for the first 5,000 of the socalled moderate vetted opposition that were to be trained in thirdparty countries. Ultimately the goal was to have 15,000 of these individuals on the ground in syria, fighting isil. And that was one of the fundamental problems. A hard time recruiting people to do that, when Bashar Alassad was attacking them. And many had serious grievances against the assad regime. When it came right down to it, general austin has to testify before congress a
Farmers in South Carolina. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. The Obama Administration is overhauling its program to train and equip moderate syrian rebels. Defense secretary Ash Carter Says the 500 million pentagon effort as failed to produce real results. Mike viqueira is live for us in washington. Mike, what does the pentagon have to say about the changes . Reporter well, good morning to you, randall. It has been brewing for quite sometime theres no question about it. It was a delayed launch of this program, much touted to train the socalled moderate opposition, put them in turkey, saudi arabia, jordan, train them, and then send them back into fight isil forces. It simply has not worked out. Ash carter as you report, randall was in europe. Here is how he described the new program. I wasnt satisfied with the early efforts in that regard, and so were looking at different ways to achieve the basically the same kind of strategic objective, which is
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