U.S. deals with the ‘symptoms not the disease’ in Syria: analyst - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page

  U.S. policy toward war-torn Syria involves the supply of “non-lethal” technology for opposition fighters and humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees. (AFP)
 
The U.S. would benefit from providing more military assistance to opposition fighters in Syria rather than simply “dealing with the symptoms” of the conflict, a leading analyst has told Al Arabiya. 

The U.S. policy toward war-torn Syria involves the supply of “non-lethal” technology for opposition fighters and humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees, in a vastly different approach to the one it pursued in Libya.

But this is not in the best interests of the U.S., Andrew Tabler from the Washington Institute for Middle East Studies told Al Arabiya.

“U.S. policy does not deal with the disease itself, Bashar al-Assad’s rule, and his minority rule over a majority Sunni population inside Syria. Instead staying out of it just deals with the symptoms, with the refugees and the outflow,” said Tabler.......................

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