Statist insanity continues: General In Charge Of "Total Failure" Syrian "Train And Equip" Program Gets Promotion

...But when it comes to US foreign policy in the Mid-East, failure is of course rewarded which explains why Maj. Gen. Michael K. Nagata who, because he was commander of American Special Operations forces in the Middle East, was ultimately responsible for the above mentioned “total failure”, is now set to be rewarded and promoted. Here’s The New York Times:

The Army general in charge of the Pentagon’s failed $500 million program to train and equip Syrian rebels is leaving his job in the next few weeks, but is likely to be promoted and assigned a senior counterterrorism position here, American officials said on Monday.

The officer, Maj. Gen. Michael K. Nagata, is stepping down as commander of American Special Operations forces in the Middle East, which made him responsible for the training program that ultimately produced only a few dozen fighters. That was a far cry from the 15,000 fighters that the program was going to train over a three-year period when it was formally started in December.

General Nagata has been in the Special Operations job for more than two years and was overdue to switch assignments as part of the military’s regular rotation of senior officers, the American officials said. The setback in training Syrian rebels does not appear to have derailed his career as one of the Army’s rising stars.

He is in line to be awarded a third star, to lieutenant general, and take a senior position at the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington, said officials who emphasized that Statist insanity continues: General In Charge Of "Total Failure" Syrian "Train And Equip" Program Gets Promotion Nagata_0

Statist insanity continues: General In Charge Of "Total Failure" Syrian "Train And Equip" Program Gets Promotion Nagata_0

the decision was not yet final.

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Statist insanity continues: General In Charge Of "Total Failure" Syrian "Train And Equip" Program Gets Promotion

Statist insanity continues: General In Charge Of "Total Failure" Syrian "Train And Equip" Program Gets Promotion

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