U.S.-Led Air War In Syria Is Off To A Difficult Start, With Moderate Rebels Disenchanted

[karynnj]

6. Not surprising -- and I doubt you really would favor actions that would make them happy

What Turkey, the moderate rebels ... and the Washington Post would prefer is that the US attack Assad simultaneously with attacking ISIL. Just as John McCain argued for.

Not only does that immediately turn this into a bigger, more intense war, where we would soon be back into combat mode, it has no end game. Here, it seems like with the US acting against both Al Nusra and ISIL we are reducing the number of terrorists in both Syria and Iraq. It seems like the first goal is to help the new Iraqi government against ISIL. That itself is a really hard task as they are in control in Sunni areas and, at this point, have support of many people who live there. It is weird hearing the names again - Fallujah, Anbar ... etc

My guess is that, just as we pushed the Iraqis (and the Afghanis for that matter) to create inclusive governments, it seems that the "political solution" that has been unsuccessfully sought might be more likely after the US has worked tacitly with Assad against ISIL and Al Nusra.