“Head of the Syrian opposition bloc Ahmad al-Jarba failed to radically change the American stance, and Washington still rejects providing the militant groups in Syria with air defense systems, fearing the possibility that the migh fall into terrorists’ hands. Syrian opposition can only expect raising its political representation in Washington and London as well as sending weaponry batches that will not change the battlefield situation, yet aim at reaching a minimum level of the balance which would impose on the Syrian government a political process. American officials also told al-Jarba that the regular armies in the Middle East has become a strategic American necessity in the context of the anti-terror war………….”

Also sprach Al-Manar network of Hezbollah in Lebanon, almost gleefully. No sources quoted directly or cited, just out of the blue. Maybe, but apparently the French have not heard of this new policy: they just accused the Damascus regime of using chemical weapons, for the tenth or fifteenth time.