"The
 British-French-American triumvirate is now in facing a single option of
 recognizing & dealing with these groups as de facto powers on the 
ground, or fight it. However, recognizing and dealing with them would be
 in contradiction with all the claims that Western powers are in an 
existencial war against Jihadists  groups, and fighting them ' means 
that the West in the same trench as the Assad Regime."