0.4 B US greenbacks lost in Yemen when the rebels overturned the US friendly government. So as in Iraq where we spent basically 1000 B dollars arming ISIS, we’ve armed the Yemeni rebels with state of the art equipment.
Secondly, the overturned government allowed US drone strikes. I wonder if that had something to do with them being overturned. No blowback there from civilians objecting to random buzzing death from the skies, I suppose.
Nothing can possibly go wrong with the plan of arming “moderate” Syrian rebels to fight ISIS, even if they are on the side of evil dictator Bashar al Assad.