Press TV
June 2, 2013
‘No-fly zone over Syria opens door to regional conflict’
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A political analyst said that imposing a no-fly zone over Syria opens the door to a regional conflict after an American general warned about its consequences.
“General Breedlove acknowledged it to be what it is. It’s an act of war. It’s not a humanitarian intervention. It’s an act of brutal aggression and one that opens the door for much larger and potentially regional conflict,” manager of the organization Stop NATO, Rick Rozoff, told Press TV on Saturday.
NATO’s top military chief, General Philip Breedlove, said that imposing a no-fly zone over Syria would be an “act of war” and carry grave risks.
“It would absolutely be harder than Libya,” he said, referring to NATO’s 2011 air strikes in Libya that dragged on over six months. “This is a much denser, much more capable defense system than we’d faced in Libya.”
An opinion poll by Gallup showed an overwhelming majority of Americans say the United States government should avoid taking any military action in Syria.
Damascus has repeatedly said that the crisis, which started in March 2011, is being engineered from outside the country. On May 18, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said militants from 29 different countries were fighting against his government in different parts of the country.
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