Even while seeing the outlines of the facts, the reasons must still fit arrogant prejudice

Guardian:

Free Syrian Army rebels defect to Islamist group Jabhat al-Nusra

The well-resourced organisation, which is linked to al-Qaida, is luring many anti-Assad fighters away, say brigade commanders

Syria’s main armed opposition group, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), is losing fighters and capabilities to Jabhat al-Nusra, an Islamist organisation with links to al-Qaida that is emerging as the best-equipped, financed and motivated force fighting Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Ideas that Assad’s removal will lead to anything but a Salafist regime ARE FANTASIES. Have always been fantasies. Were fantasies in Tunisia, Gaza, and Egypt. This IS what the people want. Wake the fuck up. Is the arrogance of so called opinion formers in the west SO GREAT they institutionally CANNOT recognize the objective truth? Cannot form a correct policy because they are now structurally unable to do so, since they are institutionally prevented from seeing?

Evidence of the growing strength of al-Nusra, gathered from Guardian interviews with FSA commanders across Syria, underlines the dilemma for the US, Britain and other governments as they ponder the question of arming anti-Assad rebels.

No it doesn’t.

WE CANNOT ARM THESE PEOPLE. WE’D LIKE TO GET RID OF ASSAD BUT FOR THESE PEOPLE? STAY OUT. COMPLETELY.

John Kerry, the US secretary of state, said that if negotiations went ahead between the Syrian government and the opposition – as the US and Russia proposed on Tuesday – “then hopefully [arming the Syrian rebels] would not be necessary”.

These fighters are not ‘defecting’. Salafist Islamist ways of living, thinking, and praying ARE WHAT THE MASS OF THE PEOPLES OF THAT REGION TRULY WANT.

al-Nusra represents a rebellion FOR THAT PURPOSE. More Quran in the daily lives of the Syrian people.