Free Syrian Army fighters are silhouetted as they stand on one of the front lines of Wadi Al-Daif camp in the southern Idlib countryside September 18, 2014. (Reuters/Khalil Ashawi)
Syrian Opposition Falls Deeper Into Disarray -- David Ignatius, Washington Post
The political disarray of the Syrian opposition — and the regional feuding that drives it — deepened in Istanbul this week, as Qatar pushed its preferred Islamist candidate into a key leadership position of the major rebel coalition despite bitter protest from rival factions backed by Saudi Arabia and other nations.
The Istanbul fracas was another example of the messy, internecine battles that have plagued the opposition. These exile politicians, funded by rival governments in the Middle East, spend so much time on backstabbing it’s no surprise that they have been ineffective in combating both the extremists of the Islamic State and the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
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My Comment: David Ignatius is right .... for any hope of defeating the Islamic State and to force a change in government in Damascus .... the Syrian rebel movements must be united and organized. But absent any U.S. leadership .... coupled with the differing agendas from the countries that are supporting the Syrian rebel movement .... any hope of a unified structure is far away in the future.
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