The Syrian president has taken acception to the British air strikes and with Britain's prime minister, David Cameron.
The current president of Syria, Bashar Assad, said in a statement on Sunday that the airstrikes currently being conducted by the British air force will have little or no affect on Islamic State positions. Assad believes that ground forces are needed to finish off the Islamic State in Syria.
British warplanes have recently joined in the fighting in the Syrian civil war on the side of the American led coalition and have carried out recent airstrikes on last Thursday and Friday, according to The Boston Herald. Assad continued his staements by declaring that the only air offensive that was actually working against the Islamic State are the ones that are being conducted by the Russian air force.
The Russians have been making massive airstrikes in Syria for more than the last two months. The Russians are claiming to be targeting Islamic State strongholds but often the Russians are bombing certain factions on the ground that are also not in support of Assad holding on to his precarious presidential power.
Assad began to take acception to British Prime Minister David Cameron. He took special acception to Cameron stating that there were at least 70,000 soldiers on the ground that were Syrian moderates. Assad said, “This is a new episode in a long series of David Cameron’s classical farce, to be very frank. This is not acceptable. Where are they? Where are the 70,000 moderates that he is talking about?”
The Syrian civil war has been raging for more than 4 years and has killed nearly 300,000 people. Hundreds of thousands more have fled Syria and are the crux of the great refugee crisis currently going on in Scnadanavia and Europe. Assad wants to remain in power and so do the Russians who are fighting with his meager forces. He is also receiving help from both Iranian and Hezbollah soldiers on the ground.
The American led coalition, however, to which Britain just aligned themselves, looks to remove Assad from power and replace his brutal regime with a more moderate and all encompassing one. All have the Islamic State as a common enemy, though. The Islamic State looks to carve out a chunk of both Iraq and Syria to form its own independent nation.
