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American experts make a sharp criticism of Washington’s position on the situation in Syria

American experts are sharply criticized by Washington’s position on the situation in Syria. This week in the country, the fourth year torn by the Civil War , the presidential election was held, despite the calls of the UN Secretary General Pan Hi Muna to Bashar Assad to wait for voting, so as not to complicate even more the search for the political paths of armed conflict in the country. Assad, according to official information, secured the support of 89% of voters. American and other Western experts do not believe in official figures and characterize the Syrian elections as a profanation of democracy.

Robert Ford is a diplomat and one of the leading arabists of his generation. He held responsible positions in the US embassies in Iraq and Algeria and gained respect to his high professionalism. At the beginning of the year, according to New York Times, in Washington they talked about his imminent appointment by the ambassador to Egypt; The occupation of the most prestigious diplomatic post in the Arab world would be a worthy completion of an already brilliant career. However, on February 28, Robert Ford, at that time de jure, the ambassador to Syria, announced his intention to resign, which he did last month. He did not report the motives of his act then and revealed them only now in an interview with a number of printed and electronic media, including CNN. It should be added that the relations of the United States and Syria are frozen, and Ford was recalled from Damascus back in 2012, but remained on the diplift.

- I came to the conclusion that I cannot defend the actual US policy regarding Syria. The administration did not want to act decisively on the position on the main part of the confrontation of power and the opposition,

Our approach to the Syrian crisis should be recognized as completely inadequate

That is, on the military. And it underestimated the danger of strengthening radical elements among the opposition as a result of their passivity and unwillingness to help moderate groups. Probably, in the case of Syria, we can only boast of the fact that we have achieved from the Assad of the destruction of a large part of its arsenal of poisonous chemicals, but now the government army, as we know, uses chlorine against the rebels in violation of this one last year to observe the Convention of the Prohibition of Him weapons. Assad’s regime cannot be trusted in any way, and therefore our approach to the Syrian crisis should be recognized as completely inadequate today, ”Ford said in an interview with CNN.

To hear such words from the lips of a restrained personnel diplomat was to match the effect of an exploding bomb

Commentary magazine, which is generally in the prosed positions, writes: “To hear such words from the lips of a restrained personnel diplomat was to match the effect of an exploding bomb. And before an interview, Ford given, we did not know how zealously we petitioned the White House behind the humanitarian intervention in Syria by the former commander of the American troops in the Middle East in the Middle East David Petreus, former Minister of Defense Leon Panett and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. For the fact that we do nothing to stop massive bloodshed in Syria. "

Three years ago, Barack Obama publicly proclaimed that Assad should leave. According to the latest intelligence data, announced by the chairman of the US intelligence community James Clapper, over the past year, Assad’s position was strengthened, at least in the Damascus area, not least due to the fact that he prevented American acts of retaliation for the use of chemical weapons, agreeing to destroy its reserves, as Moscow advised him. And thereby Assad won the precious time to consolidate his strength.

- The situation that has developed in Syria is similar to a pat. Assad did not win the war. He has lost control of a number of northern regions, and is unlikely to be able to restore it. But the opposition needs help to at least keep their conquests. And force Assad to a compromise. As for the successes of the government army in the capital and its environs and in some areas in the south of the country, in my opinion, it owes a huge support provided by Iran, Hezbollah and Russia, says Robert Ford.

According to Robert Ford, if two years ago the Syrian resistance forces received tangible financial, material, technical and military assistance from the United States, their successes would have come faster and would be larger, which would allow them to conduct a parity basis with Assad. Another consequence of tangible help from the West, Ford emphasizes, would be an increase in moderate groups in the ranks of the opposition, and not radical, managed to attract many jihadists under their banners. And now threatening the Middle Eastern allies of the West, and in the future he himself.

The commentators of the Al-Arabia channel distinguish in the remarks of Ford those places where he says that the White House is gradually leaning towards the position of the State Department, which advocates to increase the assistance of the moderate circles of the Syrian opposition and even in the future establishing a useless zone over areas adjacent to the border with Turkey. But the timid steps of the United States in this direction so far are more than the countermeasures of Assad’s allies are more than leveled.

In a recent speech at the Academy of the Ground Forces, President Obama , addressing those who call for power approaches to Syria, said: "It is stupid to think that if we have the best hammer in the world, then all problems can be likened to clogging nails."

The observer of Slate magazine Joshua Kisping , in this regard, remarked: "Unlike Robert Ford, I do not see how even energetic opposition support could persuade the scales in her favor, given the fanatical determination of Assad not to give Damascus, no matter what price the Syrian people would pay for this." At the same time, the whaling admits, Washington cannot record anything in his asset.