Western correspondents lobby again for more arms for Syrian rebels

In the last few years, Western correspondents in Beirut have been arguing that Western governments need to supply Syrian rebels with arms because that would make them become moderate and would force them to shave their beard and become secular and liberal..  This week there is a new argument: that Syrian rebels need to be armed more because that would defeat the Russian intervention and would weaken the alliance between the remnants of Free Syrian Army and Al-Qa`idah--and the latter is listed nowadays as one of the "relatively secular groups".