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US made many foreign policy mistakes in Middle East: Expert

Monday, 04 January 2016 1:02 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 04 January 2016 1:03 AM ]

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The neoconservative officials in the United States have made numerous foreign policy mistakes in the Middle East, especially with the wars in Syria and Iraq, a political commentator says.

The neoconservative leadership in the United States has made numerous foreign policy mistakes in the Middle East, especially with the wars in Syria and Iraq, a political commentator says.

The US-led military campaign in Syria has killed many civilians and has failed to contain the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group, which Washington helped to develop to overthrow the legitimate Syrian government, said Ronald Holland, an American analyst and author currently in Canada.

“We’ve made a lot of major policy mistakes in the Middle East and Syria is just the latest one,” Holland told Press TV on Sunday.

“We’ve made a lot of foreign policy mistakes and I see no indication that our neocon leaders in Washington are changing their views” (about using military force), he added.

A US congressman says a recent trip to American military bases in the Middle East has given him the impression that Washington has “no plan at all” in Syria.

“I left the trip with more faith in the plan as it relates to Iraq, and I will say, unfortunately, as far as the situation in places like Syria and Libya, there really is no plan at all,” Rep. Lee Zeldin said in a radio interview on Sunday.

Zeldin, an Iraq War veteran who is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led a congressional delegation to Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, and Qatar over the Christmas holiday. The bipartisan delegation met with American troops and held briefings with senior military and diplomatic officials in those countries.

The Obama administration has come under withering criticism from Congress for the lack of a clear strategy in Syria 15 months after a US-led coalition launched an air campaign in the country purportedly to counter ISIL.

Daesh terrorists were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government.

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