The defeat suffered by the "moderate' Syrian opposition forces over the weekend near the city of Idlib in the northern part of the country at the hands of Al-Qaeda affiliated groups once again brings upfront the US strategy in Syria focused on defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS].

A Guardian report rightly points out that the development underscores the Western fallacy of creating a "moderate' proxy coalition to fight the ground war against the ISIS and the Syrian regime simultaneously.

Read MK Bhadrakumar's column right here.