Anytime McRINO is questioned about jihadists within the rebel ranks he responds by praising Salim Idris as a “moderate” and “someone we can work with.”
Via CNS News:
Brigadier General Salim Idris, who Sen. John McCain has called a “fine leader” and who leads the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which is deemed a “moderate” force by the Obama administration, told Al Jazeera in a May 8 video interview that “Israel is an enemy country” and that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and the Lebanese terrorist group Hizballah are “Israeli collaborators.”
“Israel is an enemy country,” Idris said, according to a translation of his remarks made by the Middle East Media Research Institute. “I say this loud and clear. It occupies Syrian lands. The FSA will not change its position regarding that country before it withdraws from the Syrian lands, and recognizes the legitimate rights of the Arab Palestinian people.”
In the same Al Jazeera interview, Idris accused Bashar al-Assad and Hizballah (which is designated a terrorist group by the U.S. government) of being “Israeli collaborators.” […]
At a May 30 press briefing, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said: “Of course General Idris is a key component of the future of the Syrian opposition. He is head of the SMC. The secretary has been personally impressed with him in his occasions of meeting him in Istanbul. And even in Istanbul, let me just remind you, just a couple of weeks ago the group there, voted–or decided to make sure all military aid is going through him.”