Kerry said he was open to increasing aid to Syria but said that no decision has been made on changing the general US aid strategy to Syria. Syrian rebels have no force capable of holding government to administer aid and wage attacks against the current Assad regime, General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Atlantic Council, a think tank in the field of international affairs, in Washington, DC. “They need the force they have now, which is trying to protect local villages and try to harass the regime and level the playing field. They need something that eventually will be able to hold ground,” he said. He added that the militants who are currently fighting the Assad regime don’t have any “counterterrorism capability” to completely eliminate the Al-Qaeda -linked groups in the crisis-torn country. And were not on a path currently to provide that, he added. According to Dempsey, if rebels oust Syrian president, the country would still be in crisis. If Assad took his family and all of his cronies and departed Syria today, how does that country ... articulate itself? he asked.
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 18:51:00 +0000
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