Former US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski?s assertion that Washington should retaliate against Moscow for Russian airstrikes against US assets in Syria is a ?stunning admission? of the role America has played in the Syrian crisis, an American scholar in Wisconsin says.
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Tuesday while commenting on Brzezinski?s latest article about Russia in the Financial Times.
Brzezinski advised President Barack Obama to attempt to disarm the Russians if they keep attacking the CIA-trained militants in Syria.
?The Russian naval and air presences in Syria are vulnerable, isolated geographically from their homeland,? Brzezinski wrote on Sunday. ?They could be ?disarmed? if they persist in provoking the US.?
Dr. Barrett said that it is ?a stunning admission from a senior high-level policy advisor here in the US that the US in fact using al-Qaeda, or perhaps the Islamic State [the Daesh/ISIL terrorist group] as well, as assets.?
?This is not something that is normally admitted by officials from Washington, DC, that is that al-Qaeda in Syria, the al-Nusra Front, is actually a US ally,? he added.
Brzezinski wrote that Moscow?s apparent decision to strike CIA?s militants ?at best? reflects ?Russian military incompetence,? and worst, ?evidence of a dangerous desire to highlight American political impotence.? He added that if Moscow continues to target these people, then Washington should retaliate against Russians.
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