How our government works

In Libya, the Pentagon has allotted just over $16 million from a train-and-equip fund to develop two companies of elite troops and their support elements “to counter terrorist and extremist threats in Libya,” according to budget documents. For the aborted training outside Tripoli, the Defense Department also tapped into a classified spending account called Section 1208, devised to aid foreign troops assisting American forces conducting counterterrorism missions.

For Mauritania, about $29 million has been set aside for logistics and surveillance equipment in support of the specialized unit.

For Niger, where the United States launches unarmed surveillance drones to fly over Mali in support of French and United Nations troops, the Pentagon is spending nearly $15 million on the country’s new counterterrorism unit. The funds are part of $39.5 million this year to train and equip the West Africa nation’s army as it struggles to stem a flow of insurgents across Niger’s lightly guarded borders with Mali, Nigeria and Libya.

 

 

 

 

Did you catch that? We're training 'counter-terrorists' in Libya how to use our strategies to combat terrorists. And the last sentence, where we're training Nigerians to counter Libyans, who we have trained to fight Nigerians...

 

What the fuck is wrong with our government? Of course none of these training techniques will be taught to the actual terrorists, they are screened very carefully for their loyalty. Like training innocent muslim extremists to fly jets in the US.

 

I can't begin to fathom spending millions of dollars to train our enemies to fight against us, but our presidents see no issue? Of course, when the 'terrorists' are your own patriotic populace, I guess it lends new meaning to the word enemy.