title: it turns out trump put off investigators for  months while he destroyed emails
text: interviews syria should be able to choose its allies in the battle against daesh says american political analyst james petras 
  the pentagons plan to launch an offensive against the daesh isil terrorist group in syria is only aimed at undermining a successful attempt by the syrian government and its allies to defeat the terror group says james petras an american political commentator 
  us defense secretary ashton carter told nbc news on wednesday that the pentagon is planning a ground offensive to oust daesh from the syrian city of raqqah the terror groups stronghold in the country 
  carter who was in iraq earlier this week amid the ongoing battle to retake the city of mosul from daesh said the raqqah offensive would begin when iraqs second largest city is cleared 
  he claimed that us forces wont be directly involved in any of the operations 
  this is a ploy to have the us in northern syria petras said arguing that the us was seeking to undermine international efforts to defeat daesh in a bid to reinforce its own foothold in the conflictridden country 
  i dont believe that the attack on raqqah is a positive move because i think it brings the us closer to its policy of establishing a nofly zone in northern syria which will directly affect the efforts of the syrian government and its alliesiran and russiato defend the country 
  the analyst noted that raqqah is a problem for the syrian people and damascus should be allowed to choose its allies in the battle 
  petras went on to note that carters remarks bear similarities to us democratic presidential candidate hillary clintons plans for a conflagration in the middle east 
  the ongoing western efforts in syria have a different nature washington and its allies have come under fire for openly seeking to remove president bashar alassad from power 
  carters claim that us ground forces will have no part in the fight against daesh came at a time when more than  american soldiers were stationed in iraq tasked with providing training and intelligence to iraqi forces loading