In May 2014, the U.S. Congress, impatient for America to do something to challenge the spectacular advances of the Islamic State in Syria, authorized the Pentagon to spend $500 million dollars to raise a "moderate" army to defeat ISIL.
Next there's the vaunted "moderate" army that the U.S. set out to form in Syria.
Obama said he was "skeptical from the get-go" about the notion of creating an army of moderate forces within Syria.
But according to the BBC, Richards proposed an international coalition to vet and train an army of moderate Syrian rebels at bases in Turkey and Jordan for about a year.
With ministers having pledged not to commit British "boots on the ground", his initiative proposed vetting and training a substantial army of moderate Syrian rebels at bases in Turkey and Jordan.
Twenty-six faminies in the past 15 days alone, even a drift back of former "Free Syrian Army" men – part of David Cameron's mythical army of 70,000 "moderates", one supposes – and five prisoners released from government jails.
The government's Joint Intelligence Committee claims to have mustered an army of "70,000 moderates … based on detailed analysis updated daily".
And the Times's columnist, Philip Collins, wrote that it was a "mistake" by Cameron "to hang so much on the apparent army of 70,000 moderates who will form the Syrian vanguard against Islamic State.
Now it seems as though those guys are moderates staring in open-mouthed disbelief at an army of shock jocks, Christian fundamentalists, and oil company stooges.
Now, the company relies largely on an army of underpaid contractors spread out across the world to moderate millions of potentially rule-breaking posts on the site each week.
