Coinistus Maximus Petraeus, et. all.

So it now seems that Hillary Clinton, Coinistus Maximus Petraeus, et. all. are now on a quest to find Syrians who share US values to replace the ones who shared US values before....LOL
Which suggests that the new council they are going to support (create?) will be filled with those very Al-CIAda jihadists/Takfiri/MB thugs, etc. as they are the ones on the ground fighting... Rather stunning, eh?
Smoke wafting from the shishas on the seventh floor of Foggy Bottom will have to be monitored now for indications of a successful selection of a new government in exile, well, internal exile it would seem...
Of course, Washington could find a diplomatic way out, by supporting UN peace efforts...but demonic possession by the very active ghosts of Sykes and Picot, not to mention Woody Wilson appears to rule the foreign policy elite such as it is...Demonic possession provides a more persuasive explanation than anything else that I can imagine...

Machiavelli would have avoided Syria, IMO, believing it was in pretty good hands with the ASSAD Mafia already...The "possessed" in London, Paris, and DC are inclined otherwise...
The Saudis (both official and non...) have had a long term project for Sunni triumphalism in the Levant. This is one of a number of such projects, another having been Egypt, a third being the spread of Wahhabism through endowment of mosques, etc. In the case of the Levant their technique had been the distribution of moneys to potential political allies and the use of agents of influence like Rafik Hariri for the purpose of suborning enemies and controlling "friends." Hafez Assad resisted this process and flare ups resulted in events like the Hama massacre and Hariri's first removal from office as PM of Lebanon. The Syrian rebellion provides the Saudis with their best opportunity yet for the expansion of Sunni supremacy in the Levant...LOL

Rather dull..., but they keep trying!!!