If you are interested in more analysis of the declassified Pentagon document that Judicial Watch, a right-wing foundation, managed to obtain apparently only to smear Hillary Clinton, then you will be interested in Ahmed's analysis and his rebuttal to Juan Cole's take which tries to defend the indefensible.
A declassified secret US government document obtained by the conservative public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad.
The document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, the West intentionally sponsored violent Islamist groups to destabilize Assad, and that these “supporting powers” desired the emergence of a “Salafist Principality” in Syria to “isolate the Syrian regime.”