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"The Obama administration sees the new council as a potential interim government that could negotiate with both the international community and - down the line - perhaps also the Syrian regime." 

"The SNC will have a minority stake in the new body, but some opposition leaders are still skeptical that the effort will succeed."

"The Qatar meeting will include dozens of opposition leaders from inside Syria, including from the provincial revolutionary councils, the local 'coordination committees' of activists, and select people from the newly established local administrative councils."

Washington calls the initiative the "Riad Seif plan." He's a former Syrian parliamentarian/dissident now living outside the country.

Obama officials call him "central" to forming a new opposition council. They claim he has broad support. Previous efforts to pick leaders fell flat. This time likely won't be different.

Libyans want conflict ended. Violence and instability further Washington's plans. Syrians supporting it will be spurned. Popular sentiment wants peace, not war. Don't expect them to get it.

In 2009, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) reinvented itself as the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI). Policies remain unchanged. Syrian and Iranian regime change is prioritized. Direct intervention is urged.

On October 16, FPI headlined "Now is the Time for a Safe Zone in Syria," saying:

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