Only legitimate leader of the Syrian people lived in Texas last 30 years

The so-called Syrian opposition took another step into irrelevance this week by electing as its Prime Minister a US citizen who left Syria thirty years ago.

Ghassan Hitto has no track record of anti-Assad activism and is a total unknown inside Syria. The Syrian National Coalition elected him for one reason; he has the CIA stamp of approval.

That the SNC is fundamentally a CIA creation should be more than obvious by now. The interesting story that will play out in the months ahead is how this US puppet will manage relations with the Jabhat al Nusra elements who are actually doing the fighting in the country.

Not that the al-Qaeda affiliated radicals are any more a legitimate "Syrian" opposition than the SNC. Most of their fighters hail from outside the country too. And they have the backing of US allies Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

That fact too raises some interesting questions. How is it possible that the US spends hundreds of billions fighting al-Qaeda around the world, but her supposed allies are busy arming and funding al-Qaeda in Syria?

CIA drones over Damascus; preparing to "thin the herd"

I gather that the phrase "thin the herd of a future insurgency" is technical jargon for killing off the jihadists after they've killed off Assad.

The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that the CIA is moving the surveillance infrastructure into place to unleash a drone war on "radical" elements within the Syrian opposition. That would be the very elements who have provided what limited forward motion the opposition has achieved as the insurgency against Assad enters its third year.

Which raises at least one question; if the US has made a commitment to using drones to cleanse Syria of militants they don't approve of, why not just use them to get rid of the Syrian president they don't approve of?

Would that not at least hurry the "revolution" along and possibly save some of the lives being sacrificed in the present war of attrition between Assad and the rebels?

The strategic thinking must be that such an intervention would give the appearance that Assad was removed by the US rather than by a "homegrown" uprising. By allowing the civil war to run it's course,  and then interceding on behalf of the "moderates" in their inevitable showdown with the militants, we preserve the fiction that US drone strikes in Syria are simply a continuation of the war on Al Qaeda.

So while the array of fictional narratives multiplies, the truth becomes increasingly obvious. The uprising so carefully orchestrated by the democracy promoters in Washington for the last ten years has been hijacked by Jabhat al Nusra, who will sooner or later face the full fury of the American military so that Syria can be handed to our "moderate" stooges in the London-based opposition.

Paper claims US has delivered 300 tons of weapons to Syria rebels

That's a lot of non-lethal assistance.

Note the discussion in the final paragraphs about these weapons already being used by Al Qaeda affiliated groups.

Is there a containment plan or is the CIA just making up strategy on the fly? Are the radical groups being groomed to infiltrate Iran once they have finished Uncle Sam's work in Syria? Will Sunni radicals from Gaza currently fighting in Syria be bringing their US supplied gear home with them?

Those are just a few of the questions somebody should have given some thought to, because it's not hard to see at least 101 ways that the blowback from this policy is going to lead to more trouble than Assad ever caused.