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US likely to escalate war in Syria with extra boots: Analyst

Saturday, 09 April 2016 5:48 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 09 April 2016 5:47 PM ]

The US has “never formulated any kind of objective as to what they actually want to achieve in Syria," says Preston.

The United States may be bent on “significantly escalating” the war in Syria, as it is considering a plan to increase the number of American Special Forces deployed in the Arab country, says a political analyst in Virginia.

A US military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, has said that Pentagon is considering sending 250 more special forces to Syria, CNN reported on Friday. The troops would reportedly be advising US-backed militant groups on how to accelerate the pace of the fight against Daesh terrorists there.

However, critics have pointed to ulterior motives behind the decision, with Keith Preston, the chief editor and director of AttacktheSystem.com telling Press TV in a Saturday interview that “this shows that the United States has the intention of escalating the war effort in Syria.”

“This is how it usually starts; what usually happens is that the United States will begin an intervention in a particular country by sending in military adviser for training the local insurgents or a local military or whomever that they need backing at the time,” the analyst noted.

Preston further said Washington had “never formulated any kind of objective as to what they actually want to achieve in Syria," adding that “committing more military advisers to fight against ISIS (Daesh) in Syria is not likely to have a happy ending.”

Currently there are dozens of US special operations forces in Syria, who are working closely with a collection of various armed groups that are trying to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Separately, the CIA has been running a similar program aimed at pressuring Assad to step down. The CIA-armed militants, however, are now shooting at Pentagon-armed ones in Syria, according to US officials and militant leaders.

Reports say the US military has also resumed a highly-criticized program to train new groups of militants to fight Daesh in Syria.

The so-called US-led coalition against Daesh has been pounding purported militant positions inside Syria since September 2014, without any authorization from Damascus or the UN. However, they have done little to stop the terrorists' advances in parts of Syria.

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