Posted on 03/14/2015 3:06:49 AM PDT by Paid_Russian_Troll
New York (AFP) - CIA Director John Brennan said the United States does not want to see a chaotic collapse of the Syrian regime as it could open the way to Islamist extremists taking power.
The spy agency chief said Washington had reason to worry about who might replace President Bashar al-Assad if his government fell, given the rise of the Islamic State group and other jihadists in Syria.
"I think that's a legitimate concern," Brennan said when asked if the US government feared who might succeed Assad.
Speaking at an event at the Council on Foreign Relations, he said that "extremist elements" including the IS group and Al-Qaeda veterans are "ascendant right now" in some parts of Syria.
"The last thing we want to do is allow them to march into Damascus."
"That's why it's important to bolster those forces within the Syrian opposition that are not extremists," Brennan said.
The US military is funding the training and arming of "moderate" Syrian rebel forces but the effort is only now getting off the ground.
Washington's stance is that Assad should have no role in Syria's future but President Barack Obama's administration and other governments wanted to see a political solution that would ensure a representative government, he said.
"None of us, Russia, the United States, coalition, and regional states, wants to see a collapse of the government and political institutions in Damascus," Brennan said.
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The US doesn’t nut the Sultan in Washington does.
Israel has a representative government. For that matter, so does Turkey.
Post-Saddam Iraq had a representative government, but the Shiite majority nearly immediately started to oppress the Sunni minority, and more and more because a proxy of Shiite Iran.
Jordan has a representative government as well, but the monarch tells them what they can and can’t have.
Egypt had one under Mubarek, then there was the Morsi fiasco (he didn’t win, but the weakened “revolutionary” party that had ruled since Farouk was overthrown was pressured to say that he did), followed by his removal. The al-Sisi gov’t ran the country until an election put a popular imprimatur on his usurpation of power.
True, but I should have added except Israel...as for Turkey...I wouldn't make that bet within two years
Jordan has a representative government as well, but the monarch tells them what they can and can’t have.
Sounds just like Obama...
In his defense, he's an America-hating foreign-born moslem socialist turd.
Interesting.
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