I think you'll find this [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/syrias-civil-war-tests-whether-borders-drawn-less-than-a-century-ago-will-last/2013/12/26/6718111c-68e2-11e3-997b-9213b17dac97_story.html]article[/url] to be very interesting. Essentially, because of this giant mess, the borders we know may not exist in the very near future. [quote] I can't help but to side with it given that most of the opposition are terrorists.[/quote]I just want to point out that [url=http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2013/09/the_growing_role_jihadists_in.php]it's thought that at least 50% are Islamist and/or jihadist[/url]. However, the term and ideology behind Islamism isn't inherently bad nor is it inherently against our objectives in the region. Moderate Islamists, or rather any Islamist group opposed to al-Qaeda, would be beneficial to our goal of achieving peace in the region (something that is increasingly needed, as I'm sure you're well aware of). Here is another great article that I think you'll enjoy: [url=http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/ten-ways-the-syrian-opposition-can-help-fight-extremism]Ten Ways the Syrian Opposition Can Help Fight Extremism[/url]. It's not entirely bleak for the opposition, just yet. There are many things that both the opposition and Western governments can do to ensure that the threat from radical groups is mitigated. It may sound like I'm downplaying the threat from radical organizations within the Syrian opposition (i.e ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra, Harakat Ahrar ash-Sham, etc.), but I'm not. I'm merely suggesting that there is still hope to mitigate the influence that these radical groups have.