General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says the United States is not providing militants in Syria what they would need to oust President Bashar al-Assad.
The militants have no force capable of waging attacks against the Assad government and “and we’re not on a path currently to provide that,” Gen. Dempsey said Wednesday at the Atlantic Council, a NATO-oriented think tank in Washington DC.
Dempsey, a former division commander in the Iraq war, maintained that the foreign-backed militancy needed far more than just a rescue mission.
“They need something that eventually will be able to hold ground. And they need a counter-terror capability – all of which is responsive to Syrians,” he stated .... http://www.presstv.ir
