The United States has been supporting “different players” in Syria in a bid to get regime change in the Arab country, since Russia launched its own military campaign against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, says a military commentator.
In an interview with Press TV, political and military analyst Michael Burns said the planned deployment of American special operations troops to Syria is “a double standard in the sense that the US is up to old tricks of getting the nose of camel into the tent.”
On Friday, the US administration announced that it would deploy up to 50 special operations troops to northern Syria to advise “Kurdish and Arab forces” in their fight against Daesh (ISIL) militants.
"The American people do not want a ground war in the Middle East. And American people are opposed to it,” Burns noted.
“Now with the introduction of Russia as an aggressor participant, the US is trying to support different players in order to get some regime change in respect to the [Syrian President Bashar] Assad regime in Syria,” he added.
The US deployment of ground forces comes as the US, Russia, Iran and 15 other countries held an international meeting in Vienna, Austria, on Friday to resolve the years-long conflict in Syria.
The Arab county has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. ISIL terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control parts of Syria and Iraq.
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