“With
all of this escalation, there is the growing chance that a war in
Syria and the region becomes an internationalized conflict,” said
Eric Draitser, the founder of StopImperialism.com said, using another
acronym for the ISIL terrorist group.
“And
if that were to happen, if the US were to get its way…then it would
be a tragedy for the entire world,” Draitser told Press TV on
Tuesday.
The
US government has used the pretext of humanitarianism as a way to
justify their illegal wars against countries in the region, Draitser
said.
The
geopolitical analyst argued that Henry Kissinger’s recent article
about the urgency to defeat the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in Syria
reflects his political realism than necessarily a significant policy
shift in Washington.
In
an article published by the Wall Street Journal, the veteran US
diplomat argues that the United States strategy in Syria should focus
more on defeating Daesh than removing President Bashar al-Assad.
Despite
Kissinger’s realist approach to expand American imperialism,
idealism has replaced realism as the pervasive ideology within the
imperial establishment in the United States, Draitser noted.
Kissinger,
a former US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser during
the Nixon and Ford administrations, has been ranked by some scholars
as one the most effective US foreign policy officials in the last
half a century, while others have condemned him as a war criminal.
“These
conflicting trends, compounded by America’s retreat from the
region, have enabled Russia to engage in military operations deep in
the Middle East, a deployment unprecedented in Russian history,”
Kissinger wrote in his article.
The
United States has failed to generate effective leverage—political
or military—to implement its long-held strategy of removing
President Assad from power, he contends. “Nor has the US put
forward an alternative political structure to replace Mr. Assad
should his departure somehow be realized.”
Russia,
he says, merely stepped up to fill the vacuum left by the conflicting
US policies.
Militants
trained by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to fight against
the Syrian government are now under Russian missile strikes with
little prospect of rescue by their American supporters, according to
US officials.
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