According to Foreign Policy, Robert Ford, the former US ambassador to Syria referred to the situation of the US military presence in the Kurdish-controlled areas of Syria and warned that the US presence in Syria is not strategic and it is prolonged each week if there are no casualties among the US forces.
Robert Ford has stressed that the Americans will remain in the Kurdish-controlled areas of Syria as long as there are no casualties. "For this reason, it would be a great danger for the Kurds if they relied on the presence of the United States."
He dubbed the current US approach over protecting the Syrian Kurdish-controlled oil fields as unsuccessful.
Regarding the future of the Kurdish city of Afrin in Syria, which is now under the control of Turkey and the Turkish-backed rebels in Syria, he said: "This issue will probably be resolved through Damascus and Ankara ties and the intervention of Syrian forces."
Ankara may stay in northern Syria for a long time in order to confront the Kurdish autonomous region, the last US ambassador to Syria said about Turkey's presence in northern Syria.
Robert Ford said in the fourth part of the conference on Kurdish issues at Yale University that the situation of the Syrian Kurds, who live in a large part of the country and some other parts, is in the hands of Turkey, Syria and the opposition and it will remain the same for years.
"The experience of US involvement in Iraq, Syria and Libya over the past 20 years has shown that the United States is not in a position to seek political boundaries," he said in response to to a question about Kurdish independence and the role of the United States in this regard.
Robert Ford also described the holding of 2017 referendum of independence in the Kurdistan Region as a failed tool to achieve this goal.
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