‘US troop deployment in Syria won’t bear results’
A US democratic senator says President Barack Obama’s plan to deploy dozens of Special Forces members against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorists in Syria will not yield any result.
Senator Dianne Feinstein of California told the NBC's “Meet the Press” that Obama’s plan to send 50 troops to Syria to combat the ISIL is not enough.
“The Special Forces are limited, I think 50. That won’t do it,” she said Sunday, adding, “If we’re really going to use special operations, quick in, quick out, you have to do it in a much more comprehensive way to get at ISIL.”
The vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said the impending fight against ISIL is not a matter of if, but when.
“I have said before, and I really believe it, we will fight then now, or we will fight them later, it’s only a question of time,” Feinstein said.
She said the growing consensus in the intelligence community is airstrikes alone will not be enough to defeat the militants in Syria.
“This is a huge worldwide problem, and we’ve got to play a major role,” she noted.
Senior US administration officials said on October 30 that there will be some 50 troops deployed in the Middle East region to "train, advise and assist" so-called vetted militants in Syria.
The newly proposed Special Operations forces in Syria would reportedly work in tandem with US-backed militants and Kurdish fighters, supported by American air power, to mount an offensive on northeastern city of Raqqa, the de-facto capital of Daesh.
Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The crisis has claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people so far and displaced millions of others.
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