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US, allies seek to foster not eliminate terrorism: Analyst

Monday, 22 May 2017 1:23 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 22 May 2017 1:23 PM ]

US President Donald Trump is pictured during the Arab Islamic American Summit at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center in Riyadh on May 21, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

Stephan Lendman, a writer and radio host, describes US President Donald Trumps’ address to Muslim and Arab leaders in Riyadh as “very disturbing,” asserting that the agenda of the United States, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states is to “foster” terrorism rather than “eliminate” it.

“America most of all uses ISIS (Daesh), uses other terrorist groups as US imperial foot soldiers. So America does not want to eliminate these groups, wants to keep them, and wants to keep funding them, supporting them. This is exactly what the Saudis are doing and the [Persian] Gulf states. So all these comments saying the opposite of this were comments of mass deception,” Lendman told Press TV in an interview on Monday.

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