American people oppose any aggression against Syria: Christopher Walker

Press TV has conducted an interview with Christopher Walker, a political analyst in London, to further talk about the US-led war rhetoric against Syria.

What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.

Press TV: When it comes down to this possible attack, tell us, first of all, is this a matter of whether or is it a matter of when?

Walker: If you are to believe the Americans’ particularly, it is a matter of when. There is a slightly small problem that is a reason in Britain and that the opposition Labour Party which was going to support tomorrow’s debate may not do so.

That would cause a hiccup but still whether it is dominating everybody’s response and that is why the stock markets have fallen and oil has been soaring in price.

Press TV: Let us make sense of some of the things here, perhaps you can for us. It is very interesting that the US comes out and says first of all that this operation were to happen and they are saying that it is going to happen whether it is coming from Joseph Biden or whether it is coming from the States Department that it is not meant for regime change. First of all, what is your impression of that statement coming yesterday from Jay Carney?

Walker: I would say that that probably is the intention because the American people are on the whole opposed and certainly opposed to having in the American boots on the ground. But everybody military knows that you cannot control these things.

Once the genie of violence of that type is out of the bottle, who can say now just put it back in again? And that is why I think very interesting the most senior generals and military men in Britain have been very very, if not cautious, actually opposed.

Press TV: But then when it comes to the US explanation which really does not quite match sense of logic in this case saying you know this is just to send a signal to Assad, kind of like you did a bad thing we know based on what they think and what they have relate that we know you have used chemical weapons but we are going to send a message through a limited airstrike and then sit back. That does not quite make sense in terms of achieving something, whatever it is that they want to achieve on the ground there.

Walker: No, I totally agree with you; the logic is all over the place and what about the fact that they are going to probably be siding with al-Qaeda, the force which they have been attacking so viciously elsewhere and there is really no logic.

It really seems that the White House woke up late, felt that chemical weapon was the excuse to do something and decided to go ahead whatever; what was the point, many people say, of sending UN inspectors into Syria with all that problem that preceded them going there and then virtually saying to them we are probably going to have to come out again before things happen because we are going in.