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Year ago when $500 million was authorized to equip and train opposition rebels in syria that three days ago that the president scrapped it as being abject failure only four or five trained and equipped. we hear last night on "60 minutes" the president had been accident technical from the get-go about that program. what is sour strategy and how much of that 500 million have we spent and the president apparently thought it was a stupid idea to begin with. >> those are all good questions. the truth is he did it too late. it's important to realize the uprising against assad was not started by isis...

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The armaments. you're going to have to teach the rebels how to use them and that could include trainers and then you've just gone onto an entire mission creep where and who knows where that ends. >> i'm sure you've read the article that talks about the reasons why and not to go in. foreign policy's blake houseman recommends a couple of things on the list. he says these opposition rebels will probably get weapons anyway perhaps even from places like egypt. if the west does assist the rebels by arming them with light weapons, for example that, we have more influence. we're already in this. and o...