YEREVAN. – The United States would not like to be involved in a new protracted war in Syria, expert on oriental studies Suren Manukyan said.

He believes the U.S. is more interested in supporting “a controllable chaos” in Syria by funding the opposition.

“This helps control the region by fewer resources and enables to focus on solving the internal problems,” Manukyan noted.

The expert believes unless this support was provided, Syrian war would have ended in a month.

“Obama, apparently, does not want war. He was the last to speak when Defense Minister, Vice-President and Secretary of State have already voiced their position. Obama was waiting,” he said during the Tuesday media conference.

Another question is, which attack will be used: single attacks on the places of accumulation of Syrian troops or regular attack as it was done in Libya.

“The strikes are unlikely to be applied in those Syrian ports where the Russian military ships are located,” Manukyan added.

The situation is complicated by the fact that the U.S. still can not assemble a coalition. The variants worked out by Washington appeared to be unsuccessful: Iraq refused to join the coalition, Qatar is neutral, Egypt declared about possible closure of the Suez Canal. The U.S. has only Saudi Arabia and Turkey, he explained.

One of the options could be a vote in the UN General Assembly as a decision to carry out the attack will not work in the Security Council because of the opposition from Russia and China. Most likely, by September 9 Washington will try to persuademembers of the UN General Assembly to vote in favor of attack in order to have a formal document and not to look like as an aggressor at least formally, the expert concluded.