Free Syrian Army fighters (Reuters/Muzaffar Salman)
Syria’s Secular Rebels Caught Between Assad And The Islamists -- Times of Israel
One of the reasons for Obama’s swerve away from intervention is the sorry state of the opposition, increasingly infiltrated by jihadi extremists
The media — this writer included — have a natural tendency, almost a reflex, to try to summarize events as quickly as possible. We want to award scores, to declare winners and losers, to transform a vague, sometimes confused picture into something clearer and sharper, divided into blacks and whites.
In the American and Israeli media, immediately after Syria agreed to the Russian initiative for international supervision of its chemical weapons, clear divisions of just that kind were immediately registered by US President Barack Obama’s supporters and his critics. There were those who said Bashar Assad was the big winner, and those who insisted that Obama had proved his mastery of international diplomacy and forced Damascus to surrender without a bullet being fired.
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My Comment: Syria's secular rebels need not worry on what to do next .... Al Qaeda-linked rebels in Syria have just declared an offensive against them.
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