The US deployment of Special Operations forces to Syria is part of a “confused policy” to overthrow the Syrian government, a writer and political analyst in Boston says.

“This whole thing is so convoluted and confusing,” said Daniel Patrick Welch, an activist and outspoken critic of US foreign policy.

“It’s just a part and parcel of the whole confused policy; the policy has always been to overthrow the sovereign government of Syria,” Welch told Press TV on Tuesday.

“This is the beginning of the end for the US empire,” he added. “A dying empire is a long, slow and ugly thing.”

In a major policy shift for US President Barack Obama, Washington will deploy dozens of special operations troops to northern Syria from next month to "train, advise and assist" militants fighting Daesh (ISIL) terrorists and the Syrian government.

“We are not putting US troops on the front lines fighting firefights with ISIL,” Obama said in an interview on "NBC Nightly News" on Monday.

The US forces will remain in Syria for the foreseeable future and the White House has no plan to send more if they are successful in helping make gains on Daesh-held territory.

The deployment comes amid Russia’s intensifying campaign in the country to assist President Bashar al-Assad in fighting against ISIL.

Russia’s airstrikes against ISIL have exposed America’s false and ineffective battle against the terrorist group, Welch noted.

He also expressed hope that the Syrian government will eventually defeat foreign-backed militants and will survive with the country’s sovereignty intact.

Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The crisis has claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people so far and displaced millions of others.