US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov talk at a joint press conference in Moscow on May 7, 2013. (AFP/Getty Images)
The agreement between the United States and Russia to hold an international peace conference on Syria next month could very well undermine the Syrian opposition's recent gains and set back the support that had been growing in Washington and Brussels for arming the rebels. As such, it has raised suspicions among some observers that the West is not leading on the issue of Syria: It is selling out.
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