In an interview about US involvement in the Syrian Civil War, President Bashar al-Assad said he would welcome US military involvement in the fight against ISIS, provided the intervention was coming with a willingness to coordinate with the Syrian military.
That’s a statement the Syrian government has made in the past, saying they view unilateral intervention as a potential violation of their sovereignty, and want all the anti-ISIS moves to be coordinated with their own ongoing anti-ISIS operation.
At the same time, Assad rejected President Trump’s talk of creating “safe zones” in northern Syria, saying the only way to create safe zones of any meaningfulness would be to defeat the terrorists in the country, making all of Syria a “safe zone.”
While the Obama Administration repeatedly ruled out coordination with Syria, the Trump Administration has as yet not done so, and with suggestions they are open to working with Russia on fighting ISIS, it seems like coordination with Syria would be a possibility.
If we want to win, all we need to do is switch sides.
Then again, the head choppers and liver-eaters on “our side” are the problem, not the solution. Regime change went out of control into chaos and dysfunction years ago, but our policy just went on and on doing the same things anyway.
Fair a provision: US troops in syria under russian, iranian, hezbollah, palestinian, and syrian advisement…. And with Trump and God everything is possible….
Finally, the long-dead sanity resurrected?????
The story does not match the headline.
What Assad says he would welcome is not US troops on the ground in Syria, just “involvement” which could be just airstrikes and drones against rebels.
Of course Assad would welcome the US ramping up our presence- once again, we do the heavy lifting for someone else’ war.
I don’t blame Assad for his desperation but any Western nation involving itself in conflicts on the Asian continent will be viewed as imperial interlopers and rightfully so. Any US aid to Assad’s Syria will on serve to delegitimize his standing with the local populace. The best thing for America to do is f**k off and leave the fighting to Iran and Russia. After all, it’s their neighborhood, not ours.