Ex envoy Ford says could not defend US Syria policy
Former US Syria envoy Robert Ford claims he resigned because he could not defend the US policy toward Syria, which he believes has failed to address the bloodshed and the conflict’s causes.
Recently retired US Syria envoy Robert Ford told CNN Tuesday that he resigned because he could not defend US policy on Syria.
“I was no longer in a position where I felt I could defend American policy,” former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Tuesday.
“We have been unable to address either the root causes of the conflict in terms of the fighting...and the balance on the ground, and we have a growing extremism threat,” said Ford, who resigned in March from the State Department after a three decade diplomatic career.
There is “nothing we can point to that has been very successful to in our policy except the removal of about 93% of some of Assad’s chemicals, but now he is using chlorine gas against his opponents,” Ford said. “The regime simply has no credibility, and our policy is not addressing the Syrian crisis as it needs to."
