By Abu Anas The Syrian rebels accomplished a strategic success in shifting the balance of the battle against Bashar al-Assad's regime through a well-crafted military plan based on guerrilla warfare tactics . The United States, worried by the rebels’ ability to carry out these unexpectedly quick and sudden maneuvers, went to the point of threatening direct military intervention. Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, stated on December 3rd, that “ we are certainly planning to take action if that [using chemical weapons] eventuality were to occur. ”[1] The US and Western powers in general are trying to preserve their prior influence in Syria , which guarantees their involvement to steer the revolution towards an outcome that suits their interests. The Assad regime is nearing total collapse and there are 4 possible outcomes for this conflict. There are many different ideologies present within the rebels from the extreme secular liberals demanding a Western style democracy to
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