Chomsky on Syria

Chomsky, as you know, spoke out against any Western military intervention.  But what bothered me about this interview with him is that he basically adopted the dominant Western governmental discourse about events in Syria: that the regime responded brutally to demonstrations (which it did) and then suddenly overnight the peaceful demonstrators became armed revolutionaries.  Chomsky should go back to the early birth of the Fee Syrian Army, which indicated early on that it is not the same as the civilian population: it claimed that it was being formed to defend the civilian population. The notion that civilians became armed groups or Jihadi over night is not credible.  There is also in such a narrative no mention of the role of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar in forming armed militant groups from early on, prior to the eruption of the Syrian uprising and along with it.