Brian Becker: Syrian Arab Army triumphs major setback for US
Brian Becker, with the ANSWER Coalition, and Brent Budowsky, a columnist at The Hill, both from Washington, were interviewed by Press TV on a US presidential order for the dispatch of up to 250 military personnel to Syria under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
Becker doubted Washington's real intention of the deployment. "Are they wanting to go in to prevent Raqqah, the so-called capital of the ISIS (Daesh), from being liberated by indigenous forces within Syria and specifically the Syrian Arab Army?" the analyst asked.
He said the liberation of Raqqah from the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group would be "a major sort of setback for the United States, because it would make it clear that it was Russia's intervention not the US intervention that had led to the liberation of Raqqah from ISIS."
"When you hear President (Barack) Obama talking all about Syria," Becker said, "he doesn't speak with great urgency." Obama "is not celebrating any of the defeats of ISIS in Palmyra and other places," the analyst added.
The US president, he said, "is not using the language of liberation from ISIS."
"If ISIS is the existential enemy, which President Obama said it was when he announced that the United States would begin an open-ended bombing campaign in Syria and also in Iraq, why not use the language of celebration when those areas are liberated? It is because they have been liberated by the Syrian Arab Army in cooperation with Russia and Iran and Hezbollah."
Becker also said Washington would get "more worried" if the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gets stronger.
"If Assad looks stronger, the United States government gets more worried and I think they have given the green light to the Saudis to go ahead and allow the fighting to continue in Aleppo."
Budowsky, for his part, said Washington will not deploy troops in combat zones. He said the world needs forces composed of troops from the United States, Europe and the Muslim countries to fight terrorists.
He underlined the need for all-out efforts to destroy Daesh, because there is no doubt that the Takfiri terrorists would extend their attacks not only in Europe and the United States but also in the Middle East and Muslim countries.
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