Also, because this keeps coming up - I do not weep tears for Bashar Al-Assad, nor do I have any questions about why Syrians who are not in a right wing/religious extremist militia wanted him gone, nor do I think the future is set in stone and I can predict it from half a world away.
I legit just wanted to know why my media that does not care about Syrians was selling me what is clearly a coordinated narrative about one powerful faction of rebels that sounds VERY familiar to my 47 year old brain