A.P. Richelieu
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Already at the beginning of the Syrian insurgency, the US support was luke-warm at best.I would say situation in Syria changed very quickly from favorable to unfavorable. Kuridish factor change the ground reality where after the emergence of ISIS , NATO brought in Kurds to counter ISIS. It was totally uncoordinated effort to topple Assad.
Noone saw any organisation within the rebels with a goal that met any standards.
When later the FSA seemed to emerge as such an organisation and they begged for help against Syrian Armour, the US made some minimal effort by sending amongst other things a few 100 TOWs. Once the US got to actually training any insurgents they only managed to produce a few handfuls, which quickly defected. The US only got seriously interested once ISIS emerged and most conflicts with the Assad forces has been in the form of slapping when they are disturbing the anti ISIS activities. The anti Assad forces has been funded almost solely by the Gulf states including KSA.