White House: "There are elements to the Syrian opposition that are not necessarily friends of the US”

"... “The opposition needs to have the ability to defend the Syrian people..." Romney senior foreign-policy adviser Dan Senor told McClatchy on Thursday....The White House disagrees strongly that it should be arming Assad opponents, saying that ....“there are elements to the Syrian opposition that do not share the democratic ideas of the broad Syrian people – who are not necessarily friends of the United States,” ...”