US-led coalition fighting ISIL ‘profoundly disorganized’
The US-led coalition against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in Iraq and Syria is extremely disorganized and has no clear objectives, a former US Senate policy adviser and diplomat says.
“This is a profoundly disorganized effort,” said James George Jatras, who is also a specialist in international relations and legislative politics in Washington.
Countries like Turkey and Saudi Arabia are members of the coalition but are nevertheless allied with ISIL terrorists, Jatras told Press TV on Tuesday.
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford said Monday that special operations forces from other nations might join the fight against Daesh in Iraq and Syria.
“There are no clear strategic goals” Jatras said. “It’s not clear that they have any kind of strategy in mind.”
Jatras expressed doubt that a planned international meeting on ending the Syrian conflict to be held in New York City next week will be successful.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday countries involved in the Syrian peace process are set to meet in New York on December 18.
Speaking in Paris alongside UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Kerry admitted that details about who should represent militant groups fighting in Syria are still being ironed out.
"We ... talked about Syria and the need for the UN negotiations to be able to begin, and hopefully for a ceasefire to be able to take effect, when and if we can achieve that," Kerry told reporters on the sidelines of the climate talks in Paris.
Earlier, the Russian foreign ministry had said that in the absence of progress on finding militant representatives, it would be "premature" to announce a date for talks.
Syria has been gripped by a foreign-backed militancy for four and a half years. More than 250,000 have lost their lives and millions have been displaced as a result of the crisis.
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