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US seeks to destabilize Syria, Iraq: Commentator

A group of militants in Syria (file photo)

Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Sleboda, an international relations and security analyst from Moscow, and Michael Lane, the president of the American Institute for Foreign Policy, in Washington, to discuss the US strategy on the Takfiri ISIL group.

Sleboda believes that, contrary to what US President Barack Obama claims about the lack of a complete strategy on the part of his government on ISIL, Washington has a clear strategy regarding the developments of Syria and Iraq.

The US officials’ primary goal is not to combat ISIL, he says, adding that, instead, they want to destabilize the governments in Syria and Iraq and to establish a buffer zone of the so-called Sunni influence between the two of them in a bid to ultimately counter the empowerment of Shia factions in the Middle East region.

Meanwhile, Lane maintains that the US has a complete plan for confronting the ISIL terrorists, which was devised by the Pentagon about one year ago, but Obama is not willing to lose his “peace legacy” by engaging the country in another costly war until the end of his presidency.   

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