Press TV
June 8, 2014
US policy in Syria ‘cynical, imperial’: Activist
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The Obama administrations is inciting war and violence in Syria to pull apart the country’s social fabric and economic infrastructure, part of Washington’s “cynical, imperial and arrogant foreign policy,” an anti-war activist in Chicago says.
In an interview with CNN on Friday, National Security Adviser Susan Rice said the US government has increased support for “moderate” opposition groups in Syria, providing both “lethal and non-lethal” aid to them.
“The US is once again supporting an armed insurrection, supporting war, supporting civil discord, supporting violent uprisings in Syria,” said Rick Rozoff, a member of Stop NATO International, in an phone interview with Press TV on Saturday.
America’s intention in supporting the armed opposition in Syria is “rending apart the social fabric and economic infrastructure of a nation and plunging its people, maybe irreversibly, into anarchy and fragmentation,” Rozoff told Press TV on Saturday.
“This is a sort of cynical foreign policy being practiced by Washington and amongst the practitioners of this arrogant and imperial foreign policy, one of the more abrasive and arrogant, has to be Susan Rice,” he noted.
US officials have refused to say whether Rice was announcing a new US policy. They have also declined to comment on the details of the military aid to the militants.
The Obama administration has said it is working with Congress on ramping up support for the foreign-sponsored insurgents in Syria. The US has already provided hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to those groups.
Syria has been gripped by deadly violence since March 2011. Over 160,000 people have reportedly been killed and millions displaced due to the violence fueled by the militants.
On Wednesday, Bashar al-Assad was re-elected as Syria’s president in the country’s first presidential vote since the unrest broke out three years ago.
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