Please walk me through your thinking — I must be completely missing something. Thanks for posting the story — It is very interesting that a balloon like this to be out there.
For Egypt to intervene in the Syrian morass under the pretext of sponsoring a “national” army seems so absurd that I immediately assumed the article was the work of either the Mossad or the CIA-Obama-Kerry-Clinton-McCain pro-war axis. Is there a Syrian “nationality”? Is Egypt part of it? The UAR episode suggests that the common thread is a dominant Arab ethnicity, not national identity. An Egyptian-sponsored multi-ethnic army rejecting Arabism seems wishful. Why would Assad want an external force to “reorganize” the army on which he depends for survival? Should al-Sissi risk wrecking his own fragile polity pursuing this adventure?; or is that the desired outcome? Russian Roulette indeed.
Egypt could have some political appeal to the Syrian regime, because Egypt (under Nasser) was among the original three countries to join up for a “Pan-Arab” political force (along with Syrian and Iraqi Ba’athists).
Egypt has long been the military superpower of the Arab world though. They are the only Arab force that has a chance of standing up to the Turkish Army (the second biggest in NATO), which has been interfering in Syria.
Egypt is also the only secular government that might be willing to commit a large enough force in Syria to stabilize the place after a political settlement.
Egypt has a good case to get the stabilization and reconstruction job, as a party which was not involved in the conflict, speaks the language, and has a large enough force. They are also hard up economically, and could really use the job, if the International community would pay the tab.
You have a lot of questions and I anticipate that Murad can answer them, just send a tweet to him
https://twitter.com/malasqalani/status/818410613802172416
https://twitter.com/malasqalani
IMHO it would be a a good idea if Egypt could take over the responsibility for Syria.