Last year, the Pentagon admitted that its $500 million program aimed at training moderate forces in the Syrian opposition produced only five or six fighters. The rest joined Daesh, al-Qaeda or other radical groups trying to establish a caliphate in the embattled Arab country.
In other words, any assistance foreign governments, including the US and Saudi Arabia, provide to Syrian rebels (whether they consider them to be moderate or not) falls directly or indirectly into the hands of extremist groups in the region plagued by violence for decades.
"You have to see this as a kind of continuum, where the UK and the US are supporting essentially Saudi funded and Saudi organized and inspired forces to fight a sort of sectarian war across the Middle East. It all ties in with what the Saudis are doing with their bombing in Yemen," he said.
UN says Yemen is "one step" from famine. UK is still reloading Saudi arsenals to drop on Mid East's poorest nation. https://t.co/rFT9Xt0lM9
— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) 19 мая 2016 г.
These efforts, according to Murray, do not contribute to resolving conflicts.
"Much of it is about support for the arms industry in the West and arms sales rather than any serious attempts to achieve a proper political outcome in Syria. It is very dangerous indeed. We are creating more violence, more radicalization, and more groups who ultimately will be a danger to everybody," he noted.
