Now that the fig leaf dropped, we are waking up to this?

Is all this 'news' now?

"... There's another big implication here, particularly significant for the West: the window when Western countries might have championed a rebel faction could have just closed, possibly for good. "The scope for Western influence over the Syrian opposition has now been diminished considerably," Charles Lister of IHS Jane's told Sly and DeYoung. The United States would now have a harder time than ever finding a viable and ideologically palatable Syrian rebel group to support...."