By Jeff Mason
LIMA – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that chaos
in Syria could persist for “quite
some time” and that Russian and Iranian support for President Bashar al-Assad’s
air campaign had emboldened the Syrian leader’s crackdown on rebels.
“I am not optimistic about the
short-term prospects in Syria,” Obama said at a news conference in Lima at the
conclusion of a summit with leaders of Pacific Rim countries.
“Once Russia and Iran made a decision to
back Assad and a brutal air campaign and essentially a pacification of Aleppo
regardless of civilian casualties, children being killed or wounded, schools or
hospitals being destroyed, then it was very hard to see a way in which even a
trained and committed moderate opposition could hold its ground for long
periods of time,” he said.
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Source: Global News
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