First it was Afghanistan, then Iraq, after that it was Libya and now Syria! The targets of US intervention in the civil war of the Middle East are never ending. The US supported the separatist movement in Syria and a civil war in full swing has been the result, a war that has brought with it violent confrontations between President Assad and his Islamist population.

In politics, they say, history repeats itself! And Syria’s embedded association with Iran is important in all this. In July last year, by a 326-90 vote, the US senate passed a critical military spending bill, therein allocating more than $600 billion for defence and military purposes; more specifically, for war against Iran by all possible routes. Later, Obama signed a secret order that empowered the US army to help Syrian rebels against the Assad government.