After years of petitioning for US military intervention in Syria, the various rebel factions are now railing at the US air war in the country, complaining that the airstrikes against ISIS are providing aid to the Assad government.
The complaints are growing in Idlib, along Syria’s northwest, where the Assad government has been able to increase attacks recently. That’s because with the US attacking ISIS, the Assad government is ignoring ISIS territory and focusing on the other rebels.
The rebels had expected the US air war to be attacking not only ISIS, but Assad’s forces as well, and while the Obama Administration still talks up imposing regime change, the strikes are having so little impact on ISIS they haven’t yet expanded the war directly against the Syrian military.
“People can’t believe that all this attention is being paid to ISIS when they see Assad as the biggest terrorist,” noted a top Free Syrian Army official. The expectation of the US installing the FSA as the new rulers of the nation seems to be waning, as the administration prepares for what they’re calling many years of war.
Good. I hope they do aid Assad.
If nothing Assad needs to take the situation to his forces advantage and crush these horse sheei't't leftovers from hell and crush them once and for all. The only problem is that Israel will shout down Syria jets so as that Erdogan Islamic fascist regime in turkey.
If characteristics of Middle East "moderates" include belief in secular government, anti-sectarianism, religious freedom and female equality, then the "moderate boots on the ground" the US needs are there already, in the form of the Syrian Arab Army, which acts for the Ba'th-led National Progressive Front in the interests of all the people of Syria.
The US acts in Iraq, Lebanon, Libya and Syria in the interests of Israel, which would like all the neighboring societies to destroy themselves and their Arab identity, thus disintegrating into disjointed mini-states defined by their sect. That would leave Israel as the strongest sectarian mini-state of them all, with no superior, post-Enlightenment political ideology or national identity to confront. The Zionists have always hoped that the Arabs would become desperate enough sell their birthright.