Once upon a time

Once upon a time (a long time ago) Washington tried to make this case for its "moderate" rebels (read al Qaeda) in Syria: If everything goes well and President Assad and the Syrian government is deposed, then the best we can hope for would be a society similar or at least remotely close to the multi-confessional and multi-ethnic society which existed under President Assad. Only this time it would be run by jihadists, Wahhabists, the Muslim Brotherhood and their death squads whom the Western imperial left fell in love with.