Matthew Feeney on How Islamist Infighting in Syria is a Reminder Why Intervention is a Bad Idea

The relatively new rebel group in Syria, the
Islamic Front, is estimated to have up to 60,000 fighters and
has recently been fighting the Al Qaeda-linked Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) alongside the Western-backed
Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Jabhat al-Nusra, another Al Qaeda-linked
group, in northern Syria. However, Matthew Feeney explains,
although the Islamic Front has been fighting ISIL alongside the
FSA, they are hardly secular moderates, and the fighting with ISIL
should serve as a reminder to the Obama administration that
non-intervention is the best policy when it comes to Syria.

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