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Wary of a “full-blown” military intervention, the United States and its allies are arming and training “terrorist proxies” to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a policy that is bound to fail, says an analyst.
“It’s been Obama and the United States’ stated policy to attempt in whatever fashion possible to topple the ‘Assad regime’ using whatever means necessary,” Eric Draitser, founder of Stop Imperialism, told Press TV on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama called Tuesday for more support for militants fighting the Syrian government and asked the US-led coalition to be prepared for a long military campaign against the ISIL terrorist organization in Iraq and Syria.
Obama has authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and more recently the Pentagon to arm and equip “moderate” Syrian insurgents out of bases in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey ostensibly to battle ISIL terrorists.
Many of these so-called moderate militants, however, have pledged allegiance to the ISIL group.
“The United States has been leery of a full-blown intervention [in Syria] with US troops and so instead they have created a network of terrorist proxies,” Draitser said.
The US is using militant groups along with its “allies in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, who have provided a lot of the financing and funding, as well as the ally in Turkey which has provided safe haven for those terrorists streaming into Syria,” he explained.
Draitser said that Obama’s call for supporting Syrian militants came at the same time that a CIA internal review, as reported by the New York Times, has shown that the decades-old program of shoring up foreign insurgencies has been nothing but a failur.
In addition, the analyst said, it is “vital to the interest” of Israel and Turkey to make sure that Syria’s alliance with Iran is destroyed.
