US journalist: Syrian president is completely out of danger

SANAA, Oct. 15 (YPA) – The American  writer and political analyst,  Doug Pando, said in an interview with the National Interest magazine that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is no longer in danger, and Washington must stop its military intervention in Syria.

Pando said he spent a whole week in Syria, noting that “it was clear who is  controlled on everything there.”

He said that he saw that all the Syrian elite, all government institutions and security centers were present in the capital Damascus, whose streets and buildings were adorned with the images of President Bashar al-Assad, and that the city’s population looked forward to the future.

Pando pointed out that the United States had bet from the outset on the departure of Assad and missed the presence of a large number of supporters, and because it was likely to come in his place a person who is a more terrible.

He added that the civil war in Syria was a great tragedy and stressed that the Trump administration has no right to invade a foreign country, occupy its territory and divide it.

Pando is confident that the United States can not force Russia and Iran, which have close ties with Assad, to leave Syria.

He added that Trump’s military objectives in Syria had become “pure fiction” and that there was nothing more threatening to Assad.

The Syrian president has defeated his opponents, although few believed in his ability to regain control of most of the country, he said.

Pando concluded that the US attempt to impose civil society in other countries was never realistic and the shining example of that was its failure in Iraq. “Assad won and Washington lost.”

Sameera Hassn