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Mixed signals from Donald Trump administration has created misgivings among allies on US-Syria policy. Whether deposing Bashar al-Assad is the priority or defeating ISIS is the one that comes first. We see no difference between destroying Assad and beating ISIS. In our view for fighting ISIS Assad should be finished first because he is the source of ISIS. If the USA is not ready to take risk, Russia will be more a threat to peace and humanity.
Statements by major foreign policy players of Trump administration in the past few days led to such mixed signals and misgivings. Foreign Ministers of leading industrialized nations in their G-7 meeting in Italy
scheduled for Monday are looking for an answer on US policy from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The mixed signal hit global media when US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said after chemical attack that regime change in Syria was inevitable. But Tillerson said the priority was the defeat of ISIS. CNN commentators said in fact people having no experience in foreign policy regime in the Trump administration are to be blamed for the mess.
Moreover a power struggle is reportedly at work in the inner circle of the White House between. Trump’s political strategist Steve Benon and his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner who is also playing a role in foreign policy issues at time overshadowing Secretary of States Rex Tillerson. Lack of cohesion is creating the misgivings.
It is true that the Trump administration has evidently hardened its position on Assad’s future in the past few days. After the missile attack on an airbase in Western Syria in retaliation of nerve gas attack by regime forces that killed over 80 people, the US Ambassador to the United Nations told CNN that regime change was inevitable in Syria. But Tillerson was more candid telling CBS that the first priority was ISIS.
Haley said it’s going to be hard to accept a government that is not peaceful and stable with Assad, so regime change is something that the US thinks is going to happen because all the parties are going to see that Assad is not the leader for Syria.
Haley’s comments came as a significant departure from President Donald Trump’s previous stance on Assad’s future before election victory in November. He had said that time that fighting Assad and ISIS simultaneously was an “idiocy.” Many believe that the President must make clear which one he will go for first.
Only five days before the chemical attack, Haley had said removing Assad was not a priority raising eye-brow from many quarters whether Trump administration is going to toe the Russian line accepting Assad in power. Now many believe Trump is using the missile attack to shore up his failures in domestic front.
“Our priority is no longer to sit and focus on getting Assad out,” Haley had told reporters on March 30. On the same day, Secretary Tillerson while on a trip to Turkey said that the “longer-term status of Assad would be decided by the Syrian people.” It means the US is accepting Assad for the time being.
Tillerson believes Russia’s support of the Syrian regime made it complicit in the actions of President Bashar al-Assad and it should do more to meet commitments it made in 2013 to guarantee the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons.
G-7 Foreign Ministers are likely to bring pressure on Russia to reconsider its support for Assad in the wake of the chemical weapons attack that killed unarmed civilians and to find a political solution to Syria crisis.
If USA and the West don’t be hypocrite, they must recognise that with peace restored in Syria ISIS will be dead in no time. ISIS is anti-Muslim and proving useful for spreading anti-Muslim animosity in the Western countries. To see ISIS as Islamic extremists is the worst lie. ISIS represents a conspiracy against the Muslims in the absence of leadership among the Muslims. ISIS represents hired Muslim thugs and killers.
Fight Assad the real ISIS.
Mixed signals from Donald Trump administration has created misgivings among allies on US-Syria policy. Whether deposing Bashar al-Assad is the priority or defeating ISIS is the one that comes first. We see no difference between destroying Assad and beating ISIS. In our view for fighting ISIS Assad should be finished first because he is the source of ISIS. If the USA is not ready to take risk, Russia will be more a threat to peace and humanity.
Statements by major foreign policy players of Trump administration in the past few days led to such mixed signals and misgivings. Foreign Ministers of leading industrialized nations in their G-7 meeting in Italy
scheduled for Monday are looking for an answer on US policy from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The mixed signal hit global media when US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said after chemical attack that regime change in Syria was inevitable. But Tillerson said the priority was the defeat of ISIS. CNN commentators said in fact people having no experience in foreign policy regime in the Trump administration are to be blamed for the mess.
Moreover a power struggle is reportedly at work in the inner circle of the White House between. Trump’s political strategist Steve Benon and his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner who is also playing a role in foreign policy issues at time overshadowing Secretary of States Rex Tillerson. Lack of cohesion is creating the misgivings.
It is true that the Trump administration has evidently hardened its position on Assad’s future in the past few days. After the missile attack on an airbase in Western Syria in retaliation of nerve gas attack by regime forces that killed over 80 people, the US Ambassador to the United Nations told CNN that regime change was inevitable in Syria. But Tillerson was more candid telling CBS that the first priority was ISIS.
Haley said it’s going to be hard to accept a government that is not peaceful and stable with Assad, so regime change is something that the US thinks is going to happen because all the parties are going to see that Assad is not the leader for Syria.
Haley’s comments came as a significant departure from President Donald Trump’s previous stance on Assad’s future before election victory in November. He had said that time that fighting Assad and ISIS simultaneously was an “idiocy.” Many believe that the President must make clear which one he will go for first.
Only five days before the chemical attack, Haley had said removing Assad was not a priority raising eye-brow from many quarters whether Trump administration is going to toe the Russian line accepting Assad in power. Now many believe Trump is using the missile attack to shore up his failures in domestic front.
“Our priority is no longer to sit and focus on getting Assad out,” Haley had told reporters on March 30. On the same day, Secretary Tillerson while on a trip to Turkey said that the “longer-term status of Assad would be decided by the Syrian people.” It means the US is accepting Assad for the time being.
Tillerson believes Russia’s support of the Syrian regime made it complicit in the actions of President Bashar al-Assad and it should do more to meet commitments it made in 2013 to guarantee the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons.
G-7 Foreign Ministers are likely to bring pressure on Russia to reconsider its support for Assad in the wake of the chemical weapons attack that killed unarmed civilians and to find a political solution to Syria crisis.
If USA and the West don’t be hypocrite, they must recognise that with peace restored in Syria ISIS will be dead in no time. ISIS is anti-Muslim and proving useful for spreading anti-Muslim animosity in the Western countries. To see ISIS as Islamic extremists is the worst lie. ISIS represents a conspiracy against the Muslims in the absence of leadership among the Muslims. ISIS represents hired Muslim thugs and killers.
Fight Assad the real ISIS.
