Tony Cartalucci: US Dumps Syrian National Council!

US Dumps Syrian National Council, Focus Exclusively on Arming Al Qaeda in Syria. The Washington Post in its recent article, "US looks to build alternative Syrian opposition leadership," claims: The Obama administration has spent the past several months in secret diplomatic negotiations aimed at building a new Syrian opposition leadership structure that it hopes can win the support of minority groups still backing President Bashar al Assad. The strategy, to be unveiled at a Syrian opposition meeting next week in Qatar, amounts to a last ditch effort to prevent extremists from gaining the upper hand within the opposition and to stop the Syrian crisis from boiling over into the greater Middle East. The Post also indicates that the de facto "administrative zones" are being set up along the Turkish Syrian border with "nonlethal" assistance provided by the United States, France and "other like minded governments." The so called "Syrian National Council" is being discarded, as it is wholly seen as illegitimate by both Syrians and the world at large. The Washington Post would also quote Secretary Clinton: The SNC, Clinton said, should no longer be considered the visible leader of the opposition. There has to be a representation of those who are on the front lines, fighting and dying today to obtain their freedom, she said during an unrelated visit to the Balkan states. And we also need an opposition that will be on record strongly resisting the efforts by extremists to hijack the Syrian revolution. It is clear that both the West's political proxies, and its armed militant proxies have been compromised, and the narrative that tentatively worked against Libya, is now unraveling and failing against Syria. While the US attempts to portray this latest move as an attempt to "prevent extremist elements from gaining the upper hand within the opposition," it must be remembered that as early as 2007, US officials had admitted that efforts to overthrow the governments of Syria and Iran would include primarily US, Israeli, and Saudi armed extremists drawn from across the Arab world, and sent into Syria to create the very sectarian bloodbath now unfolding. Rhetoric of "freedom" and "democracy" serve merely as cover within which foreign military aggression is couched.