Did Hagel and Kerry scotch the Syrian regime change operation?

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6. The info is from the State dept and "current and former U.S. officials"

at least according to an LAT report posted last week in LBN:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-syria-20130316,0,3989647.story

For example the State Dept declared in December that al-Nusra, a key element of the Syrian opposition, is a terrorist organization:

The State Department says one of the strongest militias, Al Nusra Front, is a terrorist organization that is indistinguishable from the group Al Qaeda in Iraq.[/div class="excerpt"]

So I think that what he's getting at. As for Israel Meyssan is not without his prejudices but I think what he's noticing is not that Israel and others (Britain, France) are driving the agenda, but that they aren't, at least with respect to regime change in Syria and elsewhere, notably Iran. If they were, we'd have stepped up our intervention months ago.

p.s. The reason I posted this piece is that it accords with my own view that Kerry is doing exactly what a good diplomat does: getting the job done (in this case, scotching the regime change) without giving allies cause to protest. Thus the "murky game." Meyssan is currently teaching at Damascus, so he's in the thick of it, and his perceptions are less mediated than in larger media, but if you feel this is not suitable for DU, please let me know and I'll delete it. I trust your judgement and I'd much rather hear it from you than a jury.