Alwaght- The US President, Barak Obama, says boots on the ground is off the table in Syrian crisis.
BBC cited Barak Obama as saying that sending ground troops to Syria by the US and Britain to overthrow the country's government would be a mistake.
Saying that ISIS terrorist group would not be defeated in his last nine months of office, Obama only vowed "We can slowly shrink the environment in which they operate."
"In order for us to solve the long-term problems in Syria, a military solution alone - and certainly us deploying ground troops - is not going to bring that about," visiting Obama said in Brirain.
Mr Obama said the US-led coalition would continue "to strike ISIS targets in places like Raqqa, and to try to isolate those portions of the country, and lock down those portions of the country that are sending foreign fighters into Europe".
He went on saying international community would have to continue to apply pressure to all parties "to sit down at the table and try to broker a transition".
He said: "It would be, I think, tempting, for a lot of people, to believe that we can pull up the drawbridge and that we can carve a moat around ourselves and not have to deal with problems around the world."
But without co-operation and alliances "we are far weaker and we won't solve these problems", he said.
Touching on fight against ISIS, Obama told BBC: "Prosecuting the campaign is critical, and although I don't anticipate that in the next nine months it will be finished…"
"But I do think that we can slowly shrink the environment in which they operate and take on strongholds like Mosul and Raqqa that are the beating heart of their movement."
However, many Mideast experts believe from the very beginning, the US-led air campaign has not been directed against ISIS.
The air raids are intended to destroy the economic infrastructure of Iraq and Syria, some believe.
The ISIS is not only protected by the US and its allies, it is trained and financed by US-NATO, with the support of Israel and Washington’s Persian Gulf allies.
News articles by prominent British and American news outlets like the Daily Beast’s “America’s Allies Are Funding ISIS,” the London Telegraph’s “How ISIS funded, trained and operating in Iraq and Syria,” and the Daily Mail’s “Cameron tells European leaders to ‘be good to their word’ and stop funding ISIS with ransom payments,” give explanations ranging from outright admissions that Saudi, Qatar, Jordan, and Turkey are directly arming, funding, aiding and abetting ISIS, to descriptions that read like an immense money laundering operation, to ridiculous claims including “ransom payments” and “robbed banks” have been behind ISIS’ regional rise to menace.
