'US playing cynical game to keep Middle East in turmoil'
The United States is playing a “cynical game” to keep the Middle East in chaos by arming and training militants in Syria, says analyst Lawrence Davidson.
Davidson made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Sunday when asked about a Pentagon plan to deploy about 1,000 troops to arm and train militants in Syria to fight against the ISIL terrorist group.
Davidson said “I think it’s a very dangerous kind of move on the part of the United States, largely because our intelligence isn’t really sufficient to tell us what the end product of this aid would be”.
He said that the US is either making the same mistake it made in Afghanistan or trying to cause chaos in the Middle East.
“It’s one of those two scenarios, either ignorance and so we’re making the same mistake twice, or playing a very cynical game and essentially sowing chaos and just keeping the area in turmoil”.
“This would be to the advantage of Israel certainly,” he added.
Pentagon training program, which is expected to begin in early spring, will also include hundreds of US support personnel who will be operating at sites in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Critics argue that the Obama administration's plan to “train and equip” what it calls moderate Syrian militants into a proxy ground force against ISIL is foolhardy, because the US could end up arming terrorists if alliances shift in the future.
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