Main U.S.-Backed Syrian Rebel Group Joining Dangerous Islamists

Jamie Dettmer at Daily Beast reports:

One of the last moderate Syrian rebel groups trusted by Washington is waving the white flag—and picking up the Islamists’ black one.

The Syrian rebel group Harakat al-Hazm, one of the White House’s most trusted militias fighting President Bashar al-Assad, collapsed Sunday, with activists posting a statement online from frontline commanders saying they are disbanding their units and folding them into brigades aligned with a larger Islamist insurgent alliance distrusted by Washington...

Charles Lister, an analyst with U.S, think tank Brookings, described in a tweet the implosion of the group as “absolutely remarkable.”

Just got off 14hr flight to find out US-backed Harakat Hazm no longer exists after defeat to Jabhat al-Nusra. Absolutely remarkable. #Syria
— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) March 1, 2015

The US really should stay out of the foreign entanglements and stop betting on different factions that change sides more often than Michele Obama changes hair styles.

 --RW