Et on continue à broder sur une narrative pourtant défunte depuis au moins une bonne année (elle est morte avec l’Armée syrienne libre) : Al-Qaeda group’s gains in Syria undermine U.S. strategy
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/al-qaeda-inspired-rebels-gain-in-syria-making-life-even-worse-for-us-allied-forces/2014/12/05/0930bde0-7388-11e4-95a8-fe0b46e8751a_story.html
By the time the process gets underway, there may not be any moderate rebels left to aid, said Yezid Sayigh of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.
The policy “assumes a continued viable presence of the moderate opposition inside Syria. The fact of the ascendence of Jabhat al-Nusra is rendering these ideas moot,” he said. “By the time these things become a reality on the ground, Nusra will have already acquired such a degree of control the policy will no longer be feasible.”
Rebel commanders say there is still life in the Free Syrian Army, the umbrella name used by moderate groups, even as it fights for its survival on two fronts, against the government and against the Islamic State. A covert CIA-run program to aid moderate rebels has helped hold off a government advance that threatens to dislodge them from Aleppo, their most important stronghold, located to the east of Idlib.