US bombings underscore Washington's addiction to war: Geopolitical analyst
A new study that shows the US has dropped over 23,000 bombs on six Muslim-majority countries in 2015 underscores Washington’s extent of hypocrisy and its “addiction to war,” an American geopolitical analyst says.
“It is in many ways quite indicative of the very nature of how the US projects its power all over the world, in particular in Muslim countries and even more in particular in the Middle East,” said Eric Draitser, the founder of Stopimperialism.com.
The Council of Foreign Relations (CRF), a New York-based think tank, has estimated that 23,144 bombs were dropped last year by the US on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
About 77 percent of the US airstrikes purportedly targeted the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in Iraq and Syria, CRF said, citing several sources, including US Airpower Statistics and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
“The Council of Foreign Relations report only confirms what we already know to be true; that the US is addicted to war, that the US is the quintessential hypocritical imperial state,” Draitser said during an interview with Press TV on Thursday.
CFR’s report indicates that US bombardments in Iraq and Syria failed to weaken Daesh terrorists or decrease the number of their members.
Pentagon officials claim that at least 25,000 ISIL fighters have been killed since US airstrikes began in Iraq and Syria in 2014. At the same time, the CIA admits that the size of the group has remained wholly unchanged.
The report also indicates that despite the bombings in Afghanistan, the Taliban militants took control of more ground in the country.
The US and its allies invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror. The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but after more than 14 years, the foreign troops have still not been able to establish security in the country.
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