Tehran, October 20, The Iran Project –Soon after the first Russia airstrikes in Syria, the United States dispatched its bountiful supplies of the American-made missiles to the terrorist rebels fighting in Syria. The recent move in the context of war implies the fact that Syrian conflict is edging to an all-out proxy war between the United States and Russia.

“We can get as much as we need and whenever we need them,” a commander backed by US military in Syria made the remarks which demonstrate that another conflict once again has placed the former cold war foes, America and Russia, squarely on opposite sides of a proxy war. This is the label that President Obama is not interested in applying, saying the US isn’t going to make Syria into a proxy war.

This confrontation is while both Russia and the United States have declared they are fighting the ISIS, but as there is already one other war-within-a-war going on Syria, the two global powers support opposite sides in the battle between President Assad and the Syrian terrorist rebels.

The US aid program to the radical groups in Syria also reminds us of the unlearned lessons of not-so-distant past, when the US funded and trained the warriors, to fight against the soviet occupation of Afghanistan and to thwart its expansion during the Cold War era. The truth is that all the acts that Al-Qaeda are known for and considered as terrorism today are the tactics that CIA has once trained Afghan Mujahedeen to do in late 70s.

Given that the United States’ expenditure for the Afghan extremists ended up in the Afghanistan quagmire, why the US thinks this time might be different? Thus, the Washington’s turn to supply of arms and ammunition to support the rebels underscored another immense danger for US.

In fact through growing military involvement the US plans to remove Assad by any means necessary even if it entails funding the extremist forces, an approach which may end up stuck in a war out of which the new terrorist factions may spring.

As some see it, however, in case of the White House approach to an all- out military intervention in Syria, the consequences for this strategic mistake will be much different than that of the past experience.

When the time comes, it won’t be the American public who pay the cost of the US military presence in Syria, but rather this is the Europe that will be geographically vulnerable to the terrorists the US once fed in Syria.