U.S. Telling "Outright Lies" About Syria : Analyst ~ THE 5TH ESTATE ASIA

Wednesday, December 02, 2015

U.S. Telling "Outright Lies" About Syria : Analyst

Wednesday, December 02, 2015

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12/02/2015

The Pentagon statement about sending Special Operations Forces to Syria to fight Daesh (ISIL) is an "outright lie" because Washington had these commandos on the ground since it started war against Syria, an American writer and political analyst says.

"The fact is that whatever they say about commandos and troops or boots on the ground is just complete nonsense,” Daniel Patrick Welch told Press TV on Tuesday. US Defense Secretary Ash Carter told Congress on Tuesday that Pentagon is “prepared to expand" the role of Special Operations Forces in Syria. “These special operators will over time be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence, and capture ISIL leaders.” Welch said that the US “had these commandos on the ground from the very beginning. They’ve been instrumental in directing and fomenting this war against the Syrian state to weaken it and they spend millions of dollars… in a deliberate campaign to destabilize the Syrian state."

He added that the commandos are actually "the problem. They are not the solution.”

The United States has announced that it has deployed dozens of ground troops to Syria claiming they will assist Kurdish forces in their battle against Daesh terrorists.

The presence of US troops on the ground in Syria lacks any mandate from the Syrian government. Damascus says it is a violation of its sovereignty.

When will Americans put a stop to the madness?

Welch said that he wonders “if the politicians are actually just stupid, or they are covering for these policies, because the statements and the policy objectives that are public are diametrically opposed to not only the secret strategy but the facts on the ground.”

“You know the US has been instrumentally created the precursor to al-Qaeda, created the death squad project and all the precursors to ISIS (ISIL) that in fact made ISIS possible.”

The US is escalating its involvement in Syria amid Russia’s intensifying campaign in the country to assist President Bashar al-Assad in fighting against ISIL terrorists. The US forces will remain in Syria for the foreseeable future.

On September 30, Russia began its military campaign against Daesh terrorists and militants fighting against the Syrian government.

Welch said the only country that is fighting Daesh in Syria “with any intention” is Russia.

“What we have to watch is what’s actually happening. The Russians have said, ‘look this is it’. We are not going to listen to this anymore. We are going to step in and do something against this vicious death squad project that has destroyed country after country, because it’s going to threaten us.”

“It’s just so much lies and nonsense that it’s very difficult to even to listen to US officials,” he noted.

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