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No military value in US Syria
targets
The United States airstrikes in Syria often target
militants with no military value and actually
aim at the countrys infrastructure, says a US
Marine Corps veteran.
Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D, University of Michigan)
made the remarks in a phone interview with Press
TV on Tuesday while commenting on Washington-
led coalition airstrikes in Syria that began last
week.
What I can see happening is that the targets
theyre selecting are those that have, in many
cases, no military value at all to ISIS or any other
rebel group but really are intended to break
whatever infrastructure the Syrian government will
have when the fighting is over, Sabrosky said.
Washington intends to inflict such damage to the
economic and industrial infrastructure within Syria
that any Syrian government after the fighting will
be so weakened that it will be vulnerable to
further attacks.
Sabrosky, a US Army War College graduate, also
noted that it is important for the international
community to understand that war has become a
normal part of the political, public, and social
environment in the US as the country is now
entering its 14th year of continuous warfare.
That is extremely dangerous for a lot of other
countries, he stated.
The US started conducting airstrikes on the ISIL
terrorists only after US interests were threatened
by the militants.
The ISIL terrorists, who were initially trained by
the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the
Syrian government, control large parts of Syria's
northern territory. ISIL sent its fighters into Iraq in
June, quickly seizing vast expanse of land
straddling the border between the two countries.
Syria has been gripped by deadly violence since
2011 with ISIL Takfiri terrorists currently
controlling parts of it mostly in the east.
The Western powers and their regional allies --
especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey -- are
reportedly supporting the militants operating
inside Syria.
More than 191,000 people have been killed in over
three years of fighting in the war-ravaged country,
says the Office of the UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights (OHCHR), calling the figure a
probable underestimate of the real total number
of people killed.
NT/GJH
targets
The United States airstrikes in Syria often target
militants with no military value and actually
aim at the countrys infrastructure, says a US
Marine Corps veteran.
Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D, University of Michigan)
made the remarks in a phone interview with Press
TV on Tuesday while commenting on Washington-
led coalition airstrikes in Syria that began last
week.
What I can see happening is that the targets
theyre selecting are those that have, in many
cases, no military value at all to ISIS or any other
rebel group but really are intended to break
whatever infrastructure the Syrian government will
have when the fighting is over, Sabrosky said.
Washington intends to inflict such damage to the
economic and industrial infrastructure within Syria
that any Syrian government after the fighting will
be so weakened that it will be vulnerable to
further attacks.
Sabrosky, a US Army War College graduate, also
noted that it is important for the international
community to understand that war has become a
normal part of the political, public, and social
environment in the US as the country is now
entering its 14th year of continuous warfare.
That is extremely dangerous for a lot of other
countries, he stated.
The US started conducting airstrikes on the ISIL
terrorists only after US interests were threatened
by the militants.
The ISIL terrorists, who were initially trained by
the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the
Syrian government, control large parts of Syria's
northern territory. ISIL sent its fighters into Iraq in
June, quickly seizing vast expanse of land
straddling the border between the two countries.
Syria has been gripped by deadly violence since
2011 with ISIL Takfiri terrorists currently
controlling parts of it mostly in the east.
The Western powers and their regional allies --
especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey -- are
reportedly supporting the militants operating
inside Syria.
More than 191,000 people have been killed in over
three years of fighting in the war-ravaged country,
says the Office of the UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights (OHCHR), calling the figure a
probable underestimate of the real total number
of people killed.
NT/GJH