Any US military intervention in Syria will merely exacerbate the crisis in the Arab country and put the globe on the brink of another world war, a political analyst tells Press TV.
“US military involvement [in Syria] obviously would not resolve the crisis. It would just make it worse as always happens when the US military gets involved in parts of the world where it has no business being,” said Kevin Barrett in a Saturday interview with Press TV.
“This is a dangerous move because we’re really on the edge of a potential World War III in Syria. The region is being destabilized more and more at every moment,” he pointed out.
On Friday, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said that the Pentagon was positioning military forces as part of “contingency options” provided to US President Barack Obama regarding Syria.
Hagel’s remarks have been interpreted as a tacit suggestion that the US may be preparing for a military attack on Syria.
Also on Friday, some American military officials said that Washington was considering military options against Syria over the allegations of chemical weapons use by the Syrian government.
Barrett, noted that pressures by the hard-line Israeli lobby are also behind such hawkish US posturing.
On Wednesday, the militants operating in Syria claimed that around 1,300 people were killed in a government chemical attack on militant strongholds in the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar.
But the Syrian Army strongly rejected any role in the chemical attack, saying the accusations were fabricated to distract a visiting team of the UN chemical weapons experts and to cover up militants’ losses.
The Syrian government later announced that the chemical attack had actually been carried out by the militants themselves as a false flag operation.
The announcement by Syria echoed earlier declarations by Russia, which said it had “new evidence” that the chemical attack in the Damascus suburbs were of a “provocative nature.” Iran has also said, “There are documents [showing] terrorist groups are behind this attack.”
Syria has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011.
A very large number of the militants operating inside Syria are reportedly foreign nationals.
According to reports, the West and its regional allies – especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey – are supporting the militants inside Syria.
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“US military intervention in Syria can lead to WWIII: Analyst”
All I can say is:
Brilliant deduction.
The actual number of Syrians fighting for the rebels(tm) is dwindling every day as the threat of the “great Satan” is unifying the nation like nothing else could.
Does America have some sort of idiot savant recruiting programme that they plan and factor in every time some sort of abysmal failure before it even begins?
The whole Syrian shambles is just such an example, when another country would have let the FSA work it out slowly and work politically or militarily when it was ready, winning hearts and minds along the way, the US govt always manages to recruit these out of control lunatics who start eating people and murdering elderly priests and nuns and killing their own side, one ex Foreign Legionnaire I knew said it was that America has an “auto-lose” problem and I think he is right.
Of course the time is just right for that “Roman” moment as Caesar rallied his military to try and halt the collapse of the extremities of the Roman empire having lost Britannia, much of Gaul and hoping to keep the interior lands quelled, the Roman people rose up in revolt and introduced Caesar to a whole new “getting it on with the people” experience and of course the rest is as they say history…