""There are reports that outside fighters tied to Al-Qaeda type movements are involved in anti-Assad actions. I suspect these folks do not support interests of the USA or the west.""

I am particularly bothered by the fact that elements of the rebel forces have taken time off to go slaughter and dispossess Syrian Christians, who are not part of their target group.

One has to say that neither side in this fight is attaining to, or even seeking to attain to, the moral high ground and that neither side is particularly appealing as a potential victor.

Don T.