THE FURTHER MISADVENTURES OF OUR NEW MILITARY ALLIES IN SYRIA

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Human Events:

How are things going with the noble freedom fighters our illustrious President Barack Obama plans to arm with American weapons? Let’s check in with General Salim Idriss, described by Reuters as the “consensus figure” promoted as a “cool head to bring together fractious combat units and curb the influence of radical Islamists.”

Wait, what? He’s going to curb the influence of who, now?

Idriss’s Supreme Military Council, which runs the Free Syrian Army that looked on the verge of toppling Assad last year, is trying to recover from the loss of the town of Qusair to government troops reinforced by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia this month.

Washington’s decision to arm the council, an umbrella group organized into five geographical fronts, and reports that weapons are also coming in from the Gulf, have put the onus on the East German educated former military academic to forge a single rebel front.

Come again? He was educated in which Germany?

In the absence of a unified political opposition, Idriss is also assuming a political role by sending delegates to the Syrian National Coalition, the civilian arm of the opposition.