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Bad Idea: U.S. Forces in Syria

Date: 27 May 2016 - 21:08

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By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The Pentagon claims the U.S. Special Forces on the ground in Syria are in a purely non-combat role, despite a new spate of photographs showing the troops embedded with Kurdish YPG forces in combat operations.
The photos show the U.S. Green Berets wearing the insignia of the Kurdish YPG on their uniform, likely to be a topic of contention with Turkey, who considers the YPG to be a terrorist organization. Pentagon officials say it is "fairly common” for U.S. troops to wear other factions’ insignia.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook says U.S. Special Forces are aiming to "blend in with the community to enhance their own protection” by wearing the Kurdish insignia, while Col. Steve Warren says it is a "sign of partnership” with the Kurds.
The exact number of U.S. ground troops in Syria is not a matter of public record, though Cook does concede that the number has "escalated” from the initial deployment of 50 troops. President Obama signed off on another 250 troops earlier this month, and Pentagon officials are angling for more almost immediately thereafter.
Regardless, The War Party’s decision to send more U.S. troops to Syria is a formula for disaster. It will be a catalog of blunders and more intelligence failings on a massive scale.
Not surprisingly, the Syrian people and government officials – as well as the American public - denounce this terrible idea, which is openly supporting a sectarian war against the elected government in Damascus.
The whole idea of the new surge is designed to derail the ongoing peace talks between the Syrian government and the opposition. It is in fact designed to resuscitate the pre-planned agenda: Partition of Syria on ethnic-sectarian lines. This is while Syria has an all-inclusive unity government. Many towns and regions have also been liberated, meaning Syria has what it takes to ensure its own security and territorial integrity.
While the press has focused primary attention on the terrorist group of ISIL in the new surge, the future of Syria depends on its people. They are the ones that will decide who will be their next president. Also, they will never accept a partitioned state nor the lines the U.S., Israel and their partners in crime have drawn as their desired outcome of the war.
Just like the people of Syria, the world community, particularly the European Union which has been drowned in the wave of Syrian refugee crisis - will never buy the deadly partition of Syria either. The pre-planned agenda to redraw the Middle East map may be what Washington wants, but the world will oppose it, as it will create more chaos and more refugees.
The lesson is obvious: The world has had enough of America’s surge and mission creep policies. The way forward in Syria would require uniting the different populations there, under one central government, to flush out the foreign-backed terrorist goons and proxies.
The world community should at the same time continue to help the Syrians build the capacity of a national security force against ISIL – "admittedly” a product of the U.S. government and Israel, regimented and trained to implement the monstrous plan of splitting Syria and Iraq on ethnic-sectarian lines under the "Biden Plan”.