Is The West About To Reconcile With The Assad Regime Of Syria?

Militant Islamist fighters waving flags, travel in vehicles as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province June 30, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Stringer

Syria Sees Islamist Threat Bringing Detente With West, But Not Soon -- Reuters

(Reuters) - Syria is wagering that Islamic State's push to reshape the Middle East will eventually force a hostile West to deal with President Bashar al-Assad as the only way to tackle the threat.

While Assad's forces escalate their fight with Islamic State militants in the Syrian civil war, the United States is staging air strikes on the same group across the frontier in Iraq.

This, along with United Nations sanctions targeting the Sunni Muslim militants in both Syria and Iraq, has strengthened Assad's belief that the United States and Europe are coming around to his way of viewing the conflict, according to sources familiar with Syrian government thinking.

Officials in the Western governments which have backed the uprising against Assad dismiss the idea of rapprochement.

Syria is not Iraq, they say.

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My Comment: The enemy of my enemy is my friend .... so the possibility of the West starting a "rapprochement" with the Assad regime of Syria is not far fetched .... especially since the U.S. has already signaled that they are ready to form alliances with past groups that they had labelled as "terror organizations" .... 'Terrorists' help U.S. in battle against Islamic State in Iraq (Reuters).

Here is an easy prediction .... if The Islamic State continues to expand and consolidate .... "detente" between the West and Syria is all but guaranteed. But if the Islamic State launches a successful terror strike against the West that results in massive casualties .... this will guarantee a rapprochement over-night.