US has no other way than joining Russia to destroy Daesh: Analyst
The US government’s plans to train militants in Syria have failed and the US is left with no option other than joining forces with Russia to destroy terrorism in the Arab country, say an American analyst.
Author and political analyst Joe Lauria following reports that the administration of US President Barack Obama is abandoning CIA-trained militants in Syria, allowing Russia and Kurdish forces to slowly destroy them, according to Frederic C. Hof a former Obama aide.
The Pentagon announced plans last year to conduct a $500 million “train-and-equip” program to produce about 5,400 Syrian militants annually as a proxy ground force against Daesh (ISIL) and President Bashar al-Assad, a program that yielded only a small cadre of 145 militants before it was officially pulled.
Separately, the CIA has also been running a similar program aimed at pressuring Assad to step down.
Those groups are now allegedly being targeted by Russian air strikes in the Arab country, which began September last year upon a request from Damascus.
In an interview with Press TV on Monday, author and political analyst Joe Lauria said that such reports are “ill-informed” as they do not offer facts on the real image of the situation.
“Basically what is happening here in Syria is that under Russian air support and with Iranian support and with Hezbollah militia from Iraq, the Syrian Arab Army is winning the war,” he said.
“The United States is losing this war and Obama has a choice whether he is going to join and destroy ISIS (Daesh) with the Russian coalition and supporting the Syrian army,” the analyst added using another acronym for the terror group. “Or he is going to continue to call for the overthrow of Assad and fight ISIS (Daesh).”
Referring to rising speculations that Turkey and Saudi Arabia are planning a ground invasion of Syria, Lauria argued that Obama has to stop the two countries.
“So far it looks like Obama is taking the smart position which is not to support such an invasion,” he continued.
In his concluding remarks, Lauria said the US policy to train militants and to protect them in Syria has long failed and “maybe there is no one left for them to support” except joining Syria and its allies such as Russia and Iran to destroy the threat of Takfiri terrorism in the Arab country.
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