Even by the standards of the Arab Spring, having an Al Qaeda-affiliated terror group take over a country and instantly win international praise and recognition is quite surreal, but then by now everyone with a grain of sense treats media narratives like they were coming out of Communist China or Russia.

Syria’s rebel groups who fought to oust Bashar al-Assad have agreed to disband and merge into the defense ministry, according to the new administration.

The groups will report to Murhaf Abu Qasra, the former military head of leading rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and will include army officers who defected from Assad’s regime. Syria’s leaders now face the “daunting” task of trying to avoid clashes between the different groups, Reuters reported.

Murhaf Abu Qasra also serves as the Defense Minister so essentially all the Jihadis and what’s left of Syria’s military will be reporting to him. What that means is that Syria’s military operation is under the control of what, until recently, was a sanctioned terrorist group that had originally allied with Al Qaeda.

This is being treated as a non-issue and there are frowns being directed at Israel for taking out the weapons, naval assets, and aircraft of the old Syrian regime before they fall into the hands of Islamic terrorists.

This is a worse situation arguably than what happened in Afghanistan. Syria has far more advanced military and industrial technology than Afghanistan ever did. Islamic terrorists have gotten their hands on the weapons of a fairly modern army for the first time. We should all be cheering Israel for destroying as much of it as possible. And we should be helping. Instead there are complaints that Israel is preventing a formerly Al Qaeda affiliated group from having its own chemical weapons.