The United States would not take unilateral military actions against Syria before or after its general election, said an American political professor on Friday.
“In my opinion, the US is not interested to take the responsibility alone to end the Assad regime,” Professor John Louis Esposito said in an interview with Xinhua on the sidelines of a two-day international conference held in Istanbul.
Titled “The Arab Awakening and Peace in the Middle East: Muslim and Christian Perspectives,” the conference brings more than 200 religious and academic leaders from 19 countries to Istanbul to discuss peaceful co-existence and religious pluralism in the Middle East after the Arab revolutions.
“The United States just finishes two exhausting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has no intention to start a new war in the Middle East. There is strong aversion of war among the American public,” Esposito said, adding “The United States has many domestic problems such as economy recession to deal with. So it is not a good time for the US to send troops directly to Syria.”
The specialist holds that it was not easy to end the current Syria crisis soon. “It takes at least another six month to see the end of war,” he said.
“The Gulf states and Arab countries should take more responsibilities in solving the regional problem of the Middle East. It is not America’s responsibility to solve the Syrian problem alone,” he said.
Esposito is a professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies from Georgetown University, the founder and current director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding of the same university.
On Wednesday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the United States lacks initiative on Syria and its general election hampers its Syrian action.
“Right now, there are certain things being expected from the United States. The United States had not yet catered to those expectations,” Erdogan said.
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