29 Mar 2024
Sunday 1 May 2016 - 15:49
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Obama wants partial settlement for Syria’s conflict by end of 2016

Alwaght- The US has announced on April 24 it would deploy more 250 special troops to Syria, stirring a wave of reactions to the move, and giving rise to the question about Washington’s strategy for Syria.

It must be said that the US seeks to lead and conclude in its best interest the fight and rivalry between the international and regional powers in Syria as the country now stands as the major battlefield of overt and covert conflicts over forming the future world order. Syria is a conflict scene to which the united Europe has dispatched its greatest powers, namely Britain, France and Germany while the East has sent its most adventurous countries.

Russia and Iran are present in Syria, and so are such regional powers as Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Having this picture of Syria in mind, the US is taking Syria as the geography for the combination of energy of superpowers and also a battlefield which imposes spending costs on regional powers to pave the way for the final battle for gaining the global power lead by Washington.

Now that Iran’s nuclear deal, known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, with the world powers is gradually preparing the appropriate ground for a peaceful settlement of Syria’s crisis, the US tries to re-balance the rules of game. Deployment of 250 Special Forces from the US military to the war-torn Syria is a prelude for Washington’s fresh efforts. Saudi Arabia spends in Syria, Turkey spends in Syria. Iran has also spent money in Syria and sent forces to the crisis-hit country to protect the Shia holy sites there. Russia, despite being under strain of Western sanctions imposed on it as a result of the crisis in Ukraine, is raining down bombs in Syria so that it prevents loss of its ground there. Meanwhile, Washington by only sending 250 of its special forces to Syria, the land of fire and blood, is paving the way for a good gain of ground in the future in Syria.

Now in the battlefields of Syria, due to the attempts of Moscow and Tehran, the Damascus government has the upper hand in the fierce fighting. The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is pursuing a self-proposed plan to involve some of the opposition figures in a government set to be formed in the future but his attempts are rejected by opposition groups.

The post-Assad period has started since 2013, but what matters here is pursuing the political equations of the country based on the voice and demands of the Syrian people.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly asserted that it would support legal processes in Syria, and what Syrians choose wins respect of Tehran.

For now, there is no alternative for President Assad. Perhaps it is a chance for the Syrian president because among the Syrian opposition figures nobody is suitable enough to fit in Assad’s place.

On the other side, it appears that the US wants to see an end to the Syrian crisis in 2016, and it could be for this reason that White House’s officials have decided to take action faster and more seriously. In fact, we should expect a significant step towards settlement of the Syrian conflict until the end of the time the US President Barack Obama is in office, however, it is very unlikely that the crisis in Syria fully ends while President Obama is still the president of the US.

Furthermore, each of the relevant players in the Syrian five-year crisis would demand share in future Syria on the basis of their power. Actually, the opposing sides in Syria should accept a win-win conclusion to the Syrian conflict, as essentially the powers in today’s world could not accede to a win-lose game.

Thereby, it is a bit of digressive question to ask if the other sides would draw their own privileges from the endgame in Syria.

At the end of the road, we would see stepped-up efforts in the future to find a solution for Syria’s crisis using political processes, though the most significant power driving the diplomacy on Syria is currently the military balance.

By Alwaght

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