Troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad celebrate on the edge of Palmyra. Reuters
Robert Fisk, The Independent: The US is dropping calls for Assad to go because the Syrian regime is a better bet than Isis
In Syria and Lebanon there are no plans for a future, but the Syrian army is going to have a role in any New Syria.
I’m getting a bit tired of reading about the “US-backed alliance of Syrian militias” and their advance against Isis. The ‘alliance’ is largely Kurdish – which is why, I suppose, the Americans talked about northern Syria when they announced the visit of General Joseph Votel, the head of US Central Command, to the little Kurdish enclave.
General Votel could only set foot in the tiny strip of territory along the Turkish border partly held by Kurdish and a sprinkling of Turkmen groups. A visit to northern Syria by an American general is thus a lot less impressive than it sounds.
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WNU Editor: Considering the alternatives .... the U.S. is facing the obvious. But Turkey (apparently) is still sticking to regime change .... Al-Nusra Front in Syria gets daily weapons supplies from Turkey - Russian military (RT).
