Trump has no concern for Syrian civilians: Analyst
US President Donald Trump’s reported concern for the Syrian civilians allegedly killed by a suspected chemical attack is a deceptive tactic to wage war against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an American political activist says.
“Very few rational people would think that Trump has any concern about helping Russia’s economy or cares one bit about the lives of Syrian civilians, but clearly the media is feeding the frenzy with their declarations that it’s all Assad’s fault without even an investigation,” said Myles Hoenig, who ran for the US Congress in 2016 as a Green Party candidate.
“Those pulling Trump’s strings for war know how easy it is. Take an alleged gas attack and immediately find an easy target to blame,” Hoenig said in an interview with Press TV on Thursday.
“Considering the US has wanted regime change in Syria for many, many years, the slightest provocation could set off a war, whether that provocation is real or not,” he added.
“How is what’s happening now any different than when the Nazis staged a fake attack on the German radio station on the German-Polish border to justify invading Poland.”
Trump has warned of imminent military action in Syria in response to the suspected chemical attack near Damascus on Saturday. He has accused Assad of launching the attack.
Trump condemned what he said had been a “heinous attack on innocent” Syrians, after reports emerged of civilian deaths, adding: “This is about humanity — it can’t be allowed to happen.”
Syria has consistently denied using chemical weapons over the course of the foreign-backed militancy, which gripped the country in 2011.
Syria surrendered its stockpiles of chemical weapons in 2014 to a joint mission led by the US and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which oversaw the destruction of the weaponry.
The US and its allies have been bombarding what they call Daesh positions inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate.
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