The United States is pleased that Syrian opposition factions have united, the State Department says.
"The United States congratulates the representatives of the Syrian people on the formation of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces," a statement from State Department spokesman Mark Toner says. "We look forward to supporting the National Coalition as it charts a course toward the end of (President) Assad’s bloody rule and the start of the peaceful, just, democratic future that all the people of Syria deserve."
Syrian opposition factions formally agreed Sunday to unite as the National Coalition Forces of the Syrian Revolution, a spokesman for the Syrian National Council told CNN.
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This sounds very promising.
Agreed
This could be good or could be not too good.
wow i quess now they wont need any more of our $ and or assistance...be interested to see what becomes of this...oh wait thats right it is middle east which means NOTHING will come out of it
I don't know if this is good or not.
us state depart to give blessings to engage in civil war...that's nottah blessing!
IIsn't the opposition loaded with terrorist that murder innocents and then blame the Assad gov. for doing the dirty deed? And we just congratulated them?
So the Sunnis are the good guys and the Shia are the bad. So this gives the US's tacit .blessing to any Sunni backed uprising? Strange!
Yeah, go ahead and spread your congratualtions now. This is all well and good for the present because they are fighting for a common goal. Once this is accomplished, do you really believe the sunni and shiite factors will be able to live in harmony ? These two groups are as different as light and dark and the new battle will begin once they remove their common enemy.
Good morning @Portland tony @ bobcat
We are ones to quickly sweep our mistakes under the carpet and doggedly refuse to learn from them and history. Libya forgotten already?
And pray who these factions include?
Once Bashar goes the scenario can well be imagined. Not necessarily favoring S.Arabia or Israel or US.
Geez CNN, what is wrong with what I said now ? Let's try again.
Good morning saywhat
Our leaders definitely have a short memory. The shiite and sunni factions have a totally different view of what should be. Like I said, they might work together in the short term in order to acheive their common goal of getting rid of Assad. But to think they will keep a coalition once it is accomplished is nothing short of naive.
CNN censors in full bloom, like weeds in the fields, they want to crowd out anything else that may want to bloom.
What will be when all that is left but roten mess and nothing but they remain. Of course they then have only each other to crowd out but that is the way of weeds.
Can sure be frustrating@Hide Behind, weeds and all.