By MK Bhadrakumar
''For all those pundits in our strategic community who religiously take the word from the Council of Foreign Relations in New York as the Bhagavad Gita, this must come as a terrible shock — an argumentative piece by a senior fellow of the CFR justifying the logic of using the Salafist fighters as instrument of US policy to bring about ‘regime change’ in Syria. The argument runs like this:
Despite all the King’s men and all the King’s horses, the Syrian rebels are not able to pull it off. They are getting demoralized (as any ragtag army of mercenaries will be). So, what is needed is the al-Qaeda fighters. “The influx of jihadis brings discipline, religious fervor, battle experience from Iraq, funding from Sunni Sympathizers in the Gulf, and most importantly, deadly results.”
“In short, FSA [Syrian rebels] needs al-Qaeda now.” Of course, al-Qaeda fighters would have their own agenda in overthrowing the Syrian regime — setting up of a “regional headquarters where mujahideen can enjoy a safe haven.''
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