US targeting any Middle Eastern country that opposes its hegemony
The United States has a primary goal in the Middle East and that is to control the oil resources in that region, says a journalist and anti-war activist in Virginia.
“Because the Middle East has two-thirds of the world’s known oil reserves, the US desperately wants to control it,” Phil Wilayto, an editor at Virginia Defender Newspaper, told Press TV on Friday.
Wilayto also said that the US has “been systematically targeting any country whose leadership opposes US hegemony in the area,” adding “it destroyed the governments in Iraq, in Libya, and now it’s targeting Syria, Iran, (and) the Palestinians.”
“There is no solutions to the problems in the Middle East until the US changes its fundamental policy of striving for hegemony, for control, and that won’t happen until the [anti-war] movement here in the United States is stronger; the anti-war movement is weak today,” he stated.
Wilayto also said the creation and the spread of the ISIL terrorist group and other extremist organizations in the region is a “symptom of the bankruptcy of the US policy in the area and the fact that the US government has no solutions.”
The ISIL terrorists, many of whom were initially trained by the US Central Intelligence Agency in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria. They have been engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control.
Washington and some of its allies have been conducting airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria since last year but have done little to stop the terrorists so far.
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