You Can't Get the Staff These Days

Some apprentices of the World Cop who were hired to help democratise Syria have apparently turned appeaser. The US has trained and deployed fifty-odd native fighters to dispense a bit of shock and awe at the local al-Qaida franchise; but they are now refusing to fight because the terrorists have been unsporting enough to capture several of their personnel, including the commanding officer. Clearly the fight against al-Qaida requires expendables who are made of sterner stuff, like the US-backed Mujahideen who gave the USSR so much trouble in Afghanistan. Whatever became of them?