Brennan revealing US ‘true position’ in war on ISIL
Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan is “taking the lead” rather than President Barack Obama in “representing the actual view” of the administration in regard to the US fight against ISIL, says an antiwar activist.
In a Monday interview with Press TV, Brian Becker, national coordinator at ANSWER Coalition, was referring to Brennan’s remarks admitting the US could not face the Takfiri militants in Iraq and Syria militarily.
In an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation”, aired on Sunday, the CIA director (seen below) referred to the crisis ISIL has caused in Iraq and Syria since last year, saying, the United States would not be able to “resolve this problem on the battlefield”.
“Brennan is actually representing the true position of the Obama administration,” Becker said. “The purpose of the US military air power directed against ISIL… is not really to degrade or defeat ISIL as President Obama promised”.
Last September, the US president announced an open-ended military air campaign to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the ISIL forces in Iraq and Syria by enlisting the support of scores of allies.
“There is no possible way for the current US military strategy to defeat the ISIL… if in fact that’s the primary objective,” Becker noted.
He further said Washington’s true intent is to “contain the influence” of the Takfiris so that they cannot “strike at what the US considers to be its strategic asset”, namely the capital Baghdad and the oil fields in northern Iraq.
“They do not believe that they can defeat ISIL without massive numbers of ground troops… and the fact of the matter is the US public opinion will refuse to consent to the introduction of massive numbers of US ground troops for a new wider war in Iraq.”
The US and Britain invaded Iraq in blatant violation of international law in 2003 over the allegation that the regime of then Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. No WMDs, however, were ever found in Iraq.
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