US lawmakers have called on American President, Barack Obama, to speed the fall of the President Bashar Al-Assad regime by providing intelligence and training to the Syrian rebels.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Mike Rogers, said such action would also ensure that a stabilizing force existed once Assad’s regime fell.
Rogers noted that the situation in Syria was worsening by the day, with thousands of foreign fighters flooding into the country.
The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Dutch Ruppersberger, also noted the need of training to ensure stability in the after the Assad regime collapses, stating,
“We can’t be sheriff for the whole world.”
“So when we move and make the move go in, we have to do it with a coalition, the Arab coalition and other countries in the area,” he said.
“We have resources no other country has, and we have to make sure to use them. Some of the resources we have are training of people fighting and the intelligence.”
