‘US at forefront of initiating wars, destruction’: US congressional candidate
The United States has been at the forefront of initiating wars and civilian destruction based on its own economic demands, says a political analyst and peace activist in Baltimore, Maryland.
“In most recent times we see how the US instigates, initiates and feeds tensions and wars throughout the Middle East,” said Myles Hoenig, who is running for Congress as a Green Party candidate.
“We have the CIA and the Pentagon arming both sides of the civil war in Syria. We see how based on our foreign policy, the US armed the Mujahideen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan only to have created perpetual war and US invasion to fight them instead,” Hoenig told Press TV on Sunday.
“Israel is fully armed by the US which uses such weapons to have invaded Lebanon twice as well as maintain a brutal occupation of Palestine,” he added. “In the Caribbean and Central America, the US has very long history of creating bloody conditions for economic benefits for the corporate and banking class.”
Hoenig made the comments as US Secretary of State Kerry is in the Japanese city of Hiroshima to discuss with other G7 foreign ministers to discuss about global threats to international peace.
Addressing the media in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Monday, Kerry called for a political transition to resolve the conflict in Syria and prevent the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group from spreading to other countries.
Kerry said that ending the war in Syria reduces ISIL’s capacity to spread to other countries and regions, and puts an end to the flow of refugees to other countries.
“It is ironic for the US to go anywhere to discuss issues of global threats to international peace when it itself is at the forefront and center of such threats,” Hoenig said.
“The venue of the first city atomically destroyed is being visited by a representative of the nation that perpetrated this war crime,” he observed.
“Will he (Kerry) acknowledge the wrongs done by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Neither city had anything to do with perpetuating the war. They were predominantly civilian populations. The war was nearly over. There was no more Japanese air defense.”
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