CIA Director: ‘We don’t have the solutions’ for Syria

CIA Director: ‘We don’t have the solutions’ for Syria
John Brennan, director of the US’ Central Intelligence Agency – the CIA – has admitted that the US does not “have the solutions” for the Syrian war, Middle East Monitor (MEM) reported. 

Speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies – a think tank – he described how the conflicts complexity makes it unusually difficult for policy makers to come to terms with.

"In my 36 years working on security issues, it is the most complicated issue I ever have encountered because of the many, many internal actors, external actors, the sectarian tensions, the problems that have beset that country for so long that were suppressed because of an authoritarian regime under Bashar Assad," Brennan said.

Yet despite the fact that a recent truce – brokered by the US and Russia – seems to be holding for now, Brennan was not optimistic about speedy resolution to the conflict as a whole. Stating that it is likely that a resolution would not come for a number of years.

It is worth reminding that Brennan told the annual Aspen Security Forum in Colorado in July that he did not know whether or not Syria could be put back together again. His comments were a rare public acknowledgement by a top U.S. official that Syria may not survive a five-year war in its current state.

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