Syria parliamentary election 'show of force': Analyst
In this edition of The Debate, Press TV has conducted an interview with Jim W. Dean, the managing editor of Veterans Today from Atlanta, and a US foreign policy and national security analyst, Lawrence J. Korb, from Washington, to discuss how Syria's parliamentary elections will help pave the way for peace in the country.
Dean believes that the parliamentary elections in Syria are "a show of force" from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The corporate media has been trying to portray the elections as a fifty-fifty battle between the Syrian government and the opposition, but the opposition’s numbers are very small in fact, Dean said.
“The last thing in the world they want to see is an election where the numbers go tremendously to Assad," he added.
“The election is going to be a validation on Russians coming in, the war against terror being won by them and showing up the Western coalition and its failure to basically defeat Syria using terrorist proxy forces to do it,” Dean reiterated.
Meanwhile, Korb described the elections as a “good step" which should be supervised by international organizations in a bid to be held fairly.
Obviously, we still have a lot of violence in Syria and a lot of people are not able to vote and this isn't an ideal circumstance, Korb said.
"If it were up to me, I would prefer that we get the peace talks taken care of and then move on at some point to internationally supervised elections. I think that would satisfy all of the parties involved,” he added.
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