The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

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