US backing ISIL to maintain hegemony in Middle East: Analyst
The United States has covertly supported terrorist groups in the Middle East to “sow chaos” in the region and maintain its hegemony, a writer and political analyst in Boston says.
Washington is “playing footsie” with Daesh (ISIL) terrorists by funding and directing them to overthrow the sovereign government of Syria, said Daniel Patrick Welch, an activist and outspoken critic of US foreign policy.
“You have this kind of rainbow of US involvement in the head-chopping, heart-eating, death squad project throughout the region,” Welch told Press TV on Saturday.
“The US is funding a death squad project just like it did in Chile, just like it did in El Salvador, just like it did in Honduras and everywhere throughout the [Western] hemisphere and over into the Middle East for decades to overthrow the governments that it didn’t like,” he added.
A Pentagon program to train and equip militants in Syria has cost it $2 million per trainee and produced a meager result, a new report shows.
The Pentagon officially scrapped its “train-and-equip” program in Syria last month after spending a total of $384 million on a small cadre of militants, USA TODAY said in a report Thursday.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Welch described as “pure nonsense” the recent remarks by an American military commander that Iraqi forces have requested for more US training to fight ISIL.
On Thursday, US Army Colonel Curtis Buzzard said “we’ve gotten to the point now where there’s actually more units wanting to come to the training than there is time on the calendar.”
Buzzard, who just returned from a nine-month tour in Iraq, said US officials at first were concerned that Iraqis would not appreciate the value in training and that they had “largely stopped training” after the Americans troops withdrew from Iraq in 2011.
Iraq has been gripped by a deadly militancy since Daesh captured areas in north and west of the country in the summer of 2014. However, the Iraqi army and volunteer forces have managed to retake some positions from the militants in the north and operations continue for the liberation of other areas.
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