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Brussels terror attacks rooted in West's policies: Analyst

Wednesday, 23 March 2016 7:57 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 23 March 2016 7:59 AM ]

This picture taken on March 22, 2016 shows tents and police vehicles after an explosion at the Maalbeek subway station in Brussels. (AFP photo)

Press TV has conducted an interview with Marcus Papadopoulos, publisher and editor of Politics First in London, and Pietro De Matteis, president of European Federalist Party in Brussels, to discuss the bloody terrorist bomb explosions in the Belgian capital city of Brussels.

Papadopoulos says the root cause of terror attacks in Brussels is “quite simply Western foreign policy.”

The West, he said, has a long history of working with terrorist groups in order to achieve its geostrategic objectives, namely in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Libya and now in Syria.

He cited the United States, saying it has an unofficial objective of “safeguarding” its global dominance in the Middle East.

“America looks to the Middle East as a crucial area for its global domination and the Americans know very well that if they can destroy the Syrian state and impose in Damascus some sort of an Islamist pro-Western government, then Russian influence and power in the Middle East would be gone.”

Papadopoulos said the West is not “genuinely committed” to fighting terrorism as it is not to human rights and democracy.

“It is an intolerable situation where the criminals, where the murderers of the world are actually projecting themselves as guardians of democracy, as guardians of human rights, as people and countries who are fighting terrorism.”

The analyst said if the conflict in Syria is solved, that will be a great boost to fighting terrorism.

“The only way that will happen in the short term is for America to stop supporting terrorists in Syria and to tell its regional allies - Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar - to stop supporting terrorists in Syria,” he said.

De Matteis, for his part, said no justifications can be used to diminish the tragedy which has taken place in Brussels.

He said there is a big difference in what is being done in a war zone and what has been done currently by terrorists in Europe.

Europe, De Matteis said, faces a crucial juncture in its policy-making in order to tackle the challenge of Takfiri Daesh terrorists.

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