Syria now has a new government-in-exile that allegedly unites all the
groups seeking the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad’s murderous
regime. But if this is the best that they can do, Assad will still be in
power next year, and perhaps for a long time afterwards.
It
took a week of haggling in Qatar to bring all the fractious Syrian rebel
groups together, and it wouldn’t have happened at all without great
pressure from the Gulf Arab countries and the United States. Basically,
the Syrian rebels were told that if they wanted more money and arms,
they had to create a united front.
So they did, kind of, but
the fragility and underlying disunity of the new government-in-exile is
implicit in its cumbersome name: the Syrian National Coalition for
Opposition and Revolutionary Forces. It’s really just a loose and
probably temporary collaboration between different sectarian and ethnic
groups whose ultimate goals are widely divergent.
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