言论和行动的巨大差距留下了一段真空；沙特阿拉伯、卡塔尔和私人捐助者随后通过支持反对派极端势力填补了这段真空，并在巩固自己势力的同时削弱了温和派的势力。
This gap between rhetoric and action left a vacuum; Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and private donors subsequently filled it by channeling support to extremist elements of the opposition, strengthening their hand at the expense of those being called moderates.