Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
Joel--it seems that there are two distinct wars ongoing right now in Syria and Iraq---one is IS as they are building their Caliphate --the second one is the moderate Islamist forces fighting directly the Assad military which is slowly but steadily winning both territory and defeating in fight after fight Assad's Army.

When the moderate Islamists defeat the Assad Army what do the two main antagonists then do?--merge together and or fight each other---that is an interesting question.
In the video of the interview with Joshua Landis that I posted on the Syria thread yesterday he touches on some of the previous relations between the FSA and the Daesh, particularly in the taking of the Menagh Air Base: http://youtu.be/_-roW5Y7vbw?t=19m11s He mentions the propo video Flames of War by way of evidence. I won't link to the video, which is easily enough found by any search engine.