US calls for overhaul of Syrian opposition

ALJAZEERA:   …US officials have privately expressed their frustration with the SNC’s inability to come together with a coherent plan and with its lack of traction with the disparate internal groups which have waged the bloody 19-month uprising against Assad’s government.

 
 

Clinton also signalled a stronger US push to help shape the face of the political opposition, noting that with increasing sectarian tensions it was important that the next rulers of Syria are both inclusive and committed to rejecting extremism.

“There needs to be an opposition that can speak to every segment and every geographic part of Syria. And we also need an opposition that will be on record strongly resisting the efforts by extremists to hijack the Syrian revolution,” she said…   (more)

EDITORIn short, if the opposition wants guns and missals, they put people receptive to the West in charge.

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