The administration, under pressure from lawmakers to do more, announced Friday that up to 50 us special operations troops would be deployed to northern Syria to advise rebel forces there and also give USA officials a better sense of what their capabilities are and whether they can be molded into an effective fighting force. To the president’s left, cries are raising the specter of American military misadventures past and present. Now, Mr. Obama has taken action that is too little and too late.
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Mr. Obama knows our few special operations troops won’t affect the outcome of the war. The current situation in regards with Russian Federation over Ukraine and Syria is the same with this exception that Russian Federation is a powerful country with a huge advanced military which can afford confrontation with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in any area.
The Syrian forces retook control of the key road connecting Aleppo and towns of Salamiyeh, Aathrayya, and Khanaser after battles with IS militants, who recently attacked Khanser to cut the government forces’ only supply route to Aleppo.
Ms Patterson said that so far, U.S. diplomatic efforts have not led to any agreement on the fate of Assad. “We have learned our lessons in Iraq, we must ensure that the political process and transformation maintain the integrity of the components of society and include them in the process”. “It’s a political vacuum that ISIS has grown into, especially in Iraq and of course in Syria, where there’s a civil war”.
If you’re perplexed by the news, don’t feel bad, there’s no shortage of people who are mystified by Team Obama’s “strategy” – and I use that word cautiously – in the Syria-Iraq theater of operations. Hezbollah’s decision to send hundreds of its terrorist troops to Syria, on Iran’s orders, is no surprise.
State-of-the-art technology means a single operative is able to relay critical information form the broadest and deepest intelligence community the world has ever seen. “But in all likelihood Putin, may respond by doubling down militarily and demanding more Western support in a joint war on terror, which will not be welcome”. Now, Russian combat aircraft are attacking Mr. Assad’s enemies. This will be at least the fourth US attempt to train and equip a viable Syrian opposition army.
This shift has been dubbed by Aaron David Miller, a vice president with the Woodrow Wilson global Center for Scholars, “a kind of Goldilocks policy-not too hot and not too cold”, keeping the US involved but still at a distance.
The poll also reveals deep pessimism about USA prospects for success in Afghanistan.
Any subsequent American leader will hardly find themselves constrained in either escalating or ending involvement as a result of Obama’s limited move.
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This step underlines the failure of United States diplomacy in the Middle East since the American invasion of Iraq several years ago ordered by then-president George W. Bush, that led to the overthrow of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. After President Bush’s “Go Big, Lose Big” approach, perhaps we may appreciate Obama’s “Go Small, Win Small-to-to-Medium” tactics.
