Opposition forces need "efficient weapons to face these attacks including air raids, so we can change the balance of power on the ground," Jarba told a U.S. think-tank at the start of his first official visit to Washington.
"This would allow for a political solution," he insisted.
Jarba, head of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), is to hold high-level talks this week with Secretary of State John F.
I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
and national security chief Susan Rice.
He is accompanied on his eight-day trip by the new chief of staff of the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA), Brigadier General Abdelilah al-Bashir.
Jarba urged the international community to unite to stop Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
as he runs for office "on the dead bodies of Syrian," condemning next month's elections as a "farce" that would give Assad "license to kill for many years to come."