Shifting loyalties in the Middle East make it difficult to vet supposed moderate groups.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
The situation of any leader in the Middle East is not easy.
Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.
The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to see a son of ISIS, or even a grandson of ISIS, developing in the years to come.
Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.
I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.