The most telling should be what she says she really doesn't know what's going on in Syria, maybe a lot of other places in the ME either, if she ever sat down and tried to figure it all out she wouldn't even have time to write articles. We all assume what this is all about but quite frankly I am not convinced anyone can ever figure it out outside of religion being at the core of it all. Maybe we are fighting hatred, maybe it's just one side protecting another side otherwise the atrocities would equal genocide every day over there. To give people a better prospective at what you aren't looking at versus what you are here is a small sample of a reply I made on another blog site and just take a few minutes to think about it all and how it may add up into something underneath that we've never been exposed to and how it may add into the picture.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2018/02/05/islamic-state-threatens-iran-from-tora-bora-borderlands/
Islamic State ISIS
Peshmerga
Ansar al-Islam
Iraqi Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party
Abu Aisha
Ansar al-Islam
Kurdish Islamic State militants
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI)
Iranian Revolutionary Guards
In this one article all these groups have been described as being involved. This is just one small area of the middle east on a whole, if you take and were to multiply the number above by the number of each area in a conflict you would get a much better perspective on why nothing in the middle east ever gets solved. When I was moderator on a site heavily posting middle east stuff I sincerely sat down and tried to figure out who was who, who was fighting who and why they were fighting. I am honestly telling you it can't be done, you'll end up severely depressed before that ever happens. You would be much better off throwing your hands up in the air and telling them all to carry on because it just isn't humanely possible to figure our how to make all these factions come together and resolve all the differences, it simply can't be done.