members of the moderate so-called moderate syrian opposition which are the key to the president s strategy. it s been three months as you mentioned since the president stated the pentagon would vet, train, and equip moderate syrian forces on the ground during that prime time address from the white house on september 10th. there are serious problems becoming apparent with the strategy in syria. u.s. air strikes may be damaging the moderate rebels more than they are halting isis. a new study published by james defense suggest the u.s. led air strikes have allowed isis and assad to consolidate power. in fact, they have stopped targeting each other. isis is focused on eliminating the very moderate opposition groups the u.s. hopes to eventually train and equip. out of more than 900 operations that james defense looked at. assad has targeted isis only 6% of the time since the u.s. started those air strikes. syria, meanwhile is letting u.s. warplanes deal with isis while it too moderate
members of the moderate so-called moderate syrian opposition which are the key to the president s strategy. it s been three months as you mentioned since the president stated the pentagon would vet, train, and equip moderate syrian forces on the ground during that prime time address from the white house on september 10th. there are serious problems becoming apparent with the strategy in syria. u.s. air strikes may be damaging the moderate rebels more than they are halting isis. a new study published by james defense suggest the u.s. led air strikes have allowed isis and assad to consolidate power. in fact, they have stopped targeting each other. isis is focused on eliminating the very moderate opposition groups the u.s. hopes to eventually train and equip. out of more than 900 operations that james defense looked at. assad has targeted isis only 6% of the time since the u.s. started those air strikes. syria, meanwhile is letting u.s. warplanes deal with isis while it too moderate
been halted. reporter: it s been three months since the president stated the pentagon would vet, train and equip moderate syrian forces on the ground. officials admit that vetting process has yet to begin. you can t tell me politically whether we have armed, vetted, armed and trained anybody yet and sent them back to syria to fight a sis? you can t answer that question? i think the answer right now is no. why not? it was designed to be a long-term program and we hope i understand. no, you wait a minute. i m asking the questions, you give the answer. u.s. air strikes may be damaging the moderate rebels more than they are halting isis. a new study published suggests the u.s.-led air strikes have allowed isis and assad to consolidate power. they have stopped targeting each other. isis is focused on eliminating the very moderate opposition groups the u.s. hopes to train