Not so long ago, Syrians worked to send weapons and fighters into Iraq to help Sunnis fighting a sectarian conflict; suddenly, it is the other way around.
Of course, the national Iraqi government says it sides with Assad--which makes sense to avoid angering Iran and to avoid a conflict that would send Iraq's Sunni Arabs who took refuge in Syria back into Iraq. But the support for Assad's opponents is coming not from the national Iraqi government but from Sunni Arabs in Anbar province.
A Sunni Arab government in Syria might be more supportive of Iraq's Sunni Arabs.
Life gets exasperatingly complicated in the Middle East.
