Syria again (and McCain) Ooops

Evidently, a flood of experts and common sense was not enough to convince John McCain that the Syrian opposition was filled with hard core Islamists. In his mind, they were all moderates. Unless he was just lying to us.

On Tuesday evening, after President Barack Obama speech to the U.N. general assembly, America's strategy for Syria began to unravel.

At about 4 PM ET, 13 of the largest Islamist brigades in Syria formed the "Islamic Coalition," rejecting the Western-backed Syrian National Council (SNC) and the opposition's planned exile government.

Two hours later the State Department wasn't prepared to talk about the announcement, and instead discussed the Syrian coalition's preparations for the upcoming Geneva II peace talks.

However, those plans were inherently muddled after "nearly all armed factions that matter in Syria just issued statement saying [the] political opposition doesn't represent them," as explained by Al Aan TV reporter Jenan Moussa.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-strategy-in-syria-is-unraveling-2013-9