veral years of training of "moderate" rebels. The Pentagon sent all 50 of them into Syria and they were instantly wiped out (or defected) to the al- Nusra front, apparently with collusion of Turkish intelligence. The Pentagon now says it has about 4 or 5 trained "moderates." If it wasn't so horrible,

d as separate entities, fighting both regime and more mainstream rebel groups. This was epitomized in clashes between Kurdish and Al- EFTA00652418 Nusra fighters on July 17th, which left twenty-nine people dead near the town of Ras al-Ain. This was among countless others violent episodes that took pl