"There Is No Time for Hesitation": Reflections From the Free Syrian Army
"In the beginning, there were no Islamist groups in the Syrian revolution. But the situation dragged on and on. There was not enough support for the Free Syrian Army. We got weaker and external parties entered the scene. Jabhat al-Nusra started organizing, and so did the Islamic State of Iraq and Bilad as-Sham. Now these groups are stronger than we are. If we had received aid, we could have taken control in this country. Now it will be very difficult.
Sometimes America promises to give us arms. Sometimes it says that there are terrorists among us and we have to eliminate them first. America is complicating problems for us more than solving them. It is as if wants to give Russia the freedom to send Assad all the weapons that it wants.
Then people started to talk about the Geneva Conference. But we know the Syrian regime will enter dialogue only with the aim of wasting time. On the ground nothing will change. And how are we supposed to negotiate with a murderer? The people cannot accept a government that uses arms against them.
America and Europe will regret its policies. One day they will realize that they lost by not supporting the Syrian people."