The Patriot Post® · 'Moderate' Syrian Rebels?

The Associated Press reports, “Jihadi-led rebel fighters in Syria killed at least 190 civilians and abducted more than 200 during an offensive against pro-regime villages, committing a war crime, [Human Rights Watch] group said Friday.” The attacks were allegedly committed August 4, and witnesses claim “rebels went house to house, killing entire families or killing the men and taking women and children hostage.” But wasn’t it State Secretary John Kerry who asserted, “[The Syrian opposition] has increasingly become more defined by its moderation, more defined by the breadth of its membership, and more defined by its adherence to some, you know, democratic process and to an all-inclusive, minority-protecting constitution”? Some “moderates.”